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INTERVIEWER
Especially in your younger work, but even now, one gets the sense of a grown-up at play, of a very natural writer enjoying himself. Are you having as much fun writing now as when you began writing stories at Exeter?
IRVING
I can’t say I have fun writing. My stories are sad to me, and comic too, but largely unhappy. I feel badly for the characters—that is, if the story’s any good. Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
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