"You should wait, William," Miss Frost said. "The time to read <i>Madame Bovary</i> is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you bel… - John Irving

don't worry - so what if there is no life after death? There is life after Garp, believe me.

Of course: because it was in one of the camps that he went blind. They had performed some failed experiment on his eyes in the camp.
‘No, not summer camp,’ Franny had to tell Lilly, who had always been afraid of being sent to summer camp, and was unsurprised to hear that they tortured the campers.

Ruth thought of a novel as a great, untidy house, a disorderly mansion; her job was to make the place fit to live in, to give it at least the semblance of order. Only when she wrote was she unafraid.