John Irving, The World According To Garp Quotes
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions.
...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.
...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.