World According To Garp Quotes

#1. 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

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

John Irving

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. His brows rose. "And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?"
"I'm a governess," she said. Because really, that ought to be explanation enough.

Julia Quinn

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

John Irving

#7. Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind
But how could I forget thee?

William Wordsworth

#8. We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Marguerite Gardiner

#9. I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#10. Atheism is unprovable, so uninteresting. However unlikely it is, we can never be certain that God once existed - and has now shot off to infinity, where no one can ever find him ... Like Gautama Buddha, I take no position on this subject.

Arthur C. Clarke

#11. No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.

David Gest

#12. It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

Dave Thomas

#13. Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.

John Berendt

#14. Nothing is unnatural - just untried.

Rita Mae Brown

#15. Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please.

Oliver Goldsmith

#16. When you're fat, the world is divided into two groups - people who bug you and people who leave you alone. The funny thing is, supporters and saboteurs exist in either camp.

Elizabeth Taylor

#17. When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.

William Shakespeare