There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.

And never forget, there is memory.

I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.

My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.