John Irving

John Winslow Irving(amụrụ 2 Maachị 1942) bụ onye ode akwụkwọ akụkọ America na onye na-ede akwụkwọ ihe nrite Academy Award (maka Iwu Cider House, dabere na akwụkwọ akụkọ ya nke otu aha).

Okwu okwuru

A part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around you who's enough like yourself to understand you.

You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist either.

• 'O dere Helen na "otu akụkụ nke oge uto bụ mmetụta na ọ dịghị onye ọzọ gbara gị gburugburu nke zuru oke dịka onwe gị ịghọta gị."
  • Ụwa dị ka Garp si kwuo' (1978), ch. 5

• Ịtụ ihe dị mma karịa icheta ihe.
  • Ụwa dị ka Garp si kwuo' (1978)

• Imagination, ọ ghọtara na ọ bịara sie ike karịa ncheta.
  • Ụwa dị ka Garp si kwuo," ch. 5

• N'ụwa dịka Garp siri kwuo, anyị niile bụ ikpe ikpe.
  • Ụwa dị ka Garp si kwuo," ch. 19

• N’ebe ibe anyị nọ, anyị dị nnọọ mma ma dị mma ka ísì achịcha, anyị bụ nanị ezinụlọ. N'ime ezinụlọ ọbụna ikwubiga okwu ókè na-eme ka uche zuru oke.'
  • The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), ch. 6

• Ị ga-achọsi ike ma nọrọ n'ọgba aghara
  • The Hotel New Hampshire ch. 11

• Ya adịla mgbe mgbagwoju anya okwukwe, ma ọ bụ okwukwe - n'ụdị ọ bụla - na ihe ọbụna nwere ọgụgụ isi.
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), ch. 9
• Ebe nchekwa gị bụ nnukwu anụ; ị na-echefu - ọ dịghị. Ọ na-ebupụ ihe naanị. Ọ na-edobere gị ihe, ma ọ bụ na-ezonarị gị ihe—ma were ọchịchọ nke aka ya kpọkọta ha na ncheta gị. Ị chere na ị nwere ebe nchekwa; mana ọ nwere gị!
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

• Lezienụ anya maka ndị na-akpọ onwe ha ndị okpukpe; jide n'aka na ị maara ihe ha pụtara - jide n'aka na ha maara ihe ha pụtara!
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

• Ụdị ndị mmadụ na-azọrọ na ha na Chineke na-akparịta ụka taa… ha ezuola ime ka ara ezigbo Onye Kraịst!
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

• Ma a maghị anyị maka ikike anyị nwere me ihe ndị anyị chọpụtara na-enwetabeghị. Anyị bụ ndị njem nlegharị anya n'elu mmiri, bụ ndị na-amachi echiche anyị banyere iceberg na ihe anyị nwere ike ịhụ.
  • Trying to Save Piggy Sneed

• Ị pụghị ịmụta ihe niile ịchọrọ ịma n'ụzọ iwu.
  • Nwanyị Nwunye ruo Otu Afọ (1998), akụkụ II, ch. 7

• Ndụ na-amanye anyị mkpebi ikpeazụ zuru oke. Anyị kwesịrị inwe ezi uche iji zere ọtụtụ ndị na-adịghị mkpa dị ka anyị nwere ike.
  • Ruo mgbe m chọtara gị (2005), ch. 25, p. 493

• Apụghị m iche n’echiche ihe ahịrịokwu mbụ bụ, enweghị m ike iche n’echiche ebe m chọrọ ka onye na-agụ ya tinye akụkọ ahụ, ma ọ bụrụ na amaghị m ebe onye na-agụ ya ga-ahapụ akụkọ ahụ. Ya mere, ozugbo m matara ihe ikpeazụ onye na-agụ na-anụ bụ, enwere m ike ịrụ ọrụ m azụ azụ, dị ka ịgbaso map okporo ụzọ na ntụgharị.
  • Na usoro ya maka ide akwụkwọ akụkọ, A modern novelist of Dickensian tradition Spotlight. Russia Today (January 24, 2009)

• Otu onye na-agụ gwara m na nso nso a, na London, kwuru na 'ọ dị mma, a na m agụ na ị na-ebu ụzọ dee ahịrịokwu ikpeazụ, yabụ na m na-ebu ụzọ na-agụ ahịrịokwu ikpeazụ gị mgbe niile.' M wee sị, 'Ee e, ee e, i kwesịghị ime nke ahụ.'
  • A modern novelist of Dickensian tradition Spotlight. Russia Today (January 24, 2009).
• Ted Seabrooke, onye nkuzi mgba m, nwere ụdị Nietzsche nwere mmetụta n'ahụ m n'ihe gbasara ọ bụghị naanị nleba anya n'ikike m nwere oke, mana mkpebi ya siri ike nke nkà ihe ọmụma banyere otu esi eme ndụ gị, ihe ị ga-eme kwụọ ụgwọ maka ike gị. Nke a dị m oké mkpa, ma dị ka nwa akwụkwọ—ma ọ bụghị nke ọma—nakwa dị ka onye mgba mgba nke na-abụghị onye na-eme egwuregwu nkịtị ma chọtara ihe ọ hụrụ n’anya.
  • "Suzanne Herel gbara John Irving ajụjụ ọnụ." Akwụkwọ akụkọ Mama Jones, Mee/June 1997.

• Nke a bụ Marxism. Ọ na-eme ka ihe niile dị larịị site n'ịbelata ihe na-arụ ọrụ ... Ọ bụ nkwụghachi ụgwọ 'Anyị tara ahụhụ, ma ugbu a, anyị ga-anara nwa gị ego ma lelee ka ị na-agba ọsọ'... Enwere obere obere nke bụ ebumnuche mepere emepe na obodo a. nke na-enweghị onye na-echebe, na nke ahụ bụ ọgaranya.
  • Vermont's Act 60 News. Salon (July 1, 1998).
• M na-ede ugboro ugboro—na-emegide uche m—ihe ndị ahụ m na-atụ ụjọ na-emekarị. Ịnwụnahụ onye ị hụrụ n'anya, ịnwụ nne na nna, ịnwụ nwa. Enwere m egwu ịnwụ nwa. Ọ dịghị mgbe ọ mere m, ma a na-amanye m n'ụzọ doro anya ide banyere ya ugboro ugboro, na n'ụzọ m na-eche, psychologically opekempe, nke a na-ekwu ihe banyere m autobiographically dị ka a akwụkwọ akụkọ karịa eziokwu na Danny Angel na-aga [ [w:Iowa Writers Workshop|Iowa Writers Workshop]] ma nwee Kurt Vonnegut dịka onye nkuzi, nke m mekwara.
  • The Best of The Sunday EditionCBC (October 25, 2009). eweghachiri na Nọvemba 5, 2009

Ajụjụ ọnụ na Ndị edemede na-arụ ọrụ: Ajụjụ ọnụ Nyocha Paris (1988)

Asọmpi nke asatọ, ed. George Plimpton, Penguin, 1988,

• Sigmund Freud bụ onye edemede nke nwere nzụlite sayensị. Ọ maghị na ọ bụ onye edemede. Ndị dọkịta na-ahụ maka mgbaka na-akpachi anya mgbe ọ nwụsịrị, ha amaghịkwa na ọ bụ onye na-ede akwụkwọ akụkọ.

• Ide akwụkwọ akụkọ bụ n'ezie ịchọ ndị ihe metụtara. Ka m na-ede, m na-aga n'ihu na-achọ ndị e merụrụ ahụ. Akụkọ ndị ahụ na-ekpughe ndị nwụrụ anwụ.

Njiko Mpuga

• Official website
• Literary Encyclopedia

• The New York Times — Featured Author: John Irving
• John Irving interviewed by Jonathan Derbyshire in New Statesman about his book Last Night in Twisted River
• "John Irving, The Art of Fiction No. 93" by Ron Hansen in The Paris Review (Summer–Fall 1986)