“Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”

“wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”

“but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior.”

“She drew the line at television. It took no effort to watch – it was infinitely more beneficial to the soul, and to the intelligence, to read or to listen – and what she imagined there was on TV appalled her.”

“Bonkie bit Garp!"Garp bit Bonkie”

“Garp drank the beer and wondered if everything was an anticlimax..”

“There’s nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn’t in their books. It’s better to read a good writer than meet one.”