John Irving
Born: March 2, 1942,  in Exeter, New Hamphire.
A great writer. "THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP" has more layers than a schizophrenic onion.
"The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything."
"Life is serious...but art is fun!"
"Half my life is an act of revision."
"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."
POSTSCRIPT
"Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater. This was shortly after the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor and people were being tolerant of soldiers, because suddenly everyone was a soldier, but Jenny Fields was quite firm in her intolerance of the behavior of men in general and soldiers in particular."
from "THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP"
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