If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. Votes: 13
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. Votes: 9
The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was. Votes: 5
In the sixties, dear Bill, we did not say 'top' and 'bottom' - we said 'pitcher' and 'catcher'..." Votes: 0
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy. Votes: 0
My life is a reading list. Votes: 0
Half my life is an act of revision. Votes: 0
I you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. Votes: 0
Keep passing the open windows. Votes: 0
Life is an X-rated soap opera. Votes: 0
I lived five years in the Midwest, and I loved it. The people were so nice. The people were so open. Votes: 0
. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . . Votes: 0
All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man. Votes: 0
The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them. Votes: 0
The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist. Votes: 0
We are formed by what we desire Votes: 0
My dear boy, please don't put a label on me"don't make me a category before you get to know me! Votes: 0
Life is serious but art is fun! Votes: 0
A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories. Votes: 0
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior. Votes: 0
No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind. Votes: 0
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends. Votes: 0
Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes. Votes: 0
What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. Votes: 0
...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent. Votes: 0
The object of war is to survive it. Votes: 0
"¦there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time. Votes: 0
And never forget, there is memory. Votes: 0
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station. Votes: 0
Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough. Votes: 0
I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply. Votes: 0