Larry Woiwode

''I consider myself a spiritual person,'' he says. ''I was raised as a Catholic, which in those years, pre-Vatican II, was a very formal, strict, codified religion. And as I moved into the 60's myself, I sort of shucked all of that, and I found a blankness and a meaninglessness. Indeed, if this is what it's all about, why live? Why go on? Yet sort of underneath this there was a current of, I guess, I know there's more to it than this. And then I started reading the Bible, and there seemed to me great, resounding, universal truth there, of a sort that I'd never encountered anywhere else." - Larry Woiwode, novelist.