“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or it hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”

About John Irving

Author • American

John Winslow Irving is a celebrated American novelist and screenwriter. He achieved widespread critical and popular acclaim with his 1978 novel, The World According to Garp. Many of his works, including The Cider House...