Doctor Quote by John Irving

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

— John Irving

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.

— Tom Waits

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.

— John Irving

I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was the century…

— John Irving

“Here was the world-famous novelist with her penchant for detail; yet, in her observations of a prostitute with a customer, she had failed to…

— John Irving

My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a…

— John Irving

“Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she…

— John Irving

“Amanda herself couldn't understand why her writing was so different from her own personality. Her pen seemed to take on a life of its…

— Lisa Kleypas

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

— Cynthia Ozick

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

— Anthony Burgess

“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he…

— Anthony Trollope