John Irving Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. March 2, 1942
Birthday: March 2
The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other. It is only the vividness of memory that keeps the dead alive forever; a writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as our personal memories.
source: John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket
topic: Jobs, Memories, Cities, Dead Alive, Vividness
