According To Garp Quotes

#1. A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.

John Niven

#2. A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.

Nancy Kress

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

John Irving

#4. When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who'd lost children wrote to me. 'I lost one, too,' they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn't lost any children. I'm just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword)

John Irving

#5. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

#6. I could pick a favorite YouTuber, maybe I would say GloZell.

Tyler Oakley

#7. Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#8. Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

Robert Hughes

#9. People who are born round don't die square.

Cus D'Amato

#10. We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.

Herbert Otto Gille

#11. I have no doubt who I am.

Jeanne Moreau

#12. After a good roll in the hay, when he's all peaceful and serene and he hasn't a worry or a care in the world, and the euphoric calm of release is drifting through his cerebrum, that's when you broadside him with the cold cruel fact that his life as he knows it is over!

Benjamin R. Smith

#13. received" but into the salon.

Sarah Lark

#14. Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as well as former times. In some instances by acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets, and poets heroes.

George Washington

#15. She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything
maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

John Irving

#16. A positive attitude leads to a positive action, which then yields a positive result. That's how the cycle always goes. Nothing seems to be too difficult for people blessed with positive mindsets.

Kevin J. Donaldson