• Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.

    John Irving: Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.
    "Wrestling Life Into Fable". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2005.