"I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing bu..." — John Irving

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.