Plot 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. Theyรre going someplace.
John IrvingIn the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.
John Irving