“'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was ...” — John Irving Quote

“'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.”

“Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.”

“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”