Blog: largehearted boy

The New Statesman interviews author John Irving. How do you start a novel? With the last sentence. Every novel of mine began with a last sentence, and not even the punctuation in those 12 last sentences changed. The first couple of times that happened to me, I thought it was an oddity. I didn't recognise it as a habit, nor would I have labelled it a "process". But then I came to recognise that this is the way my mind works. [...]