Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,โ Mrs. Grogan was saying, โand peace at last.โ Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloudโs, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that heโd come a long way and still had a long way to go.
John IrvingI'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a second or third draft I wrote insert pages on a typewriter. But I got rid of all my typewriters about three or four novels ago and now I do everything by hand. I write by hand because it makes me go slow and going slow is what I like.
John Irving