...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases

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.

...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.

Imagine the big rating agencies as three competitive saloons standing side by side, with each free to set its own drinking age. Before long, nine-year-olds would be downing bourbon

In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall.

Cutting words can cut your readers but if the intention is pure, the story will resonate loud and true.

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

While it is possible to create all your own energy, most people feed off the energy of others. If you could see on multiple planes of attention you would be astonished!

When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

There's no tyrant like a brain.

Leadership is about empathy.

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval of the ecclesiastical authorities.