“The loss of innocence in childhood, or the absent
parent, and those sexual outsiders or misfits I am repeatedly attracted to in
my fiction—well, I do not choose to write about these things. These things
obsess me; these things choose me. You don't get to pick the nightmare that
wakes you up at 4 a.m.—it comes looking for you, again and again.”—John Irving,
“The ‘Cider House’ Writing Rules,” The
Wall Street Journal, May 5-6, 2012
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