I Have A Very Poor Record At

It Is Much Easier To Be Flexible About Where A Story Begins Than It Ever Was For Me To Change My Mind About Where And How A Story Ended.

The Lie, Of Course, Is More Interesting.

I Never Know When I Finish The Novel I Am Writing Which Will Be The Next Novel Out Of The Station.

Crazy People Made Him Crazy. It Was As If He Personally Resented Them Giving Into Madness - In Part, Because He So Frequently Labored To Behave Sanely. When Some People Gave Up The Labor Of Sanity, Or Failed At It, Garp Suspected Them Of Not Trying Hard Enough.

In The World According To Garp, We Are All Terminal Cases