“When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think my style is suggestive rather than direct. The reader must often use his imagination or lose the most subtle part of my thought.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
