As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper โ or in a hurry.
John IrvingHe was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
John IrvingThe history of a city was like the history of a familyโthere is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other. It is only the vividness of memory that keeps the dead alive forever; a writerโs job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as our personal memories.
John Irving