A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.
John IrvingAmong adults โ and among orphans โ Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.
John IrvingIt seems to me that people who donโt learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disabilityโthere is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar materialโbut I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called โgood studentsโ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?
John Irving