John Irving Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. March 2, 1942
Birthday: March 2
So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother and someone’s older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them.
source: John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”
topic: Mother, Dream, Brother, Lost Brother, Perfect Family
