...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
John IrvingPlot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
John IrvingThe gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.
John IrvingWhat was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.
John IrvingThe history of a city was like the history of a family—there 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 writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as our personal memories.
John Irving