People Regard Art Too Highly,

Don’t You Understand?” He Would Say, “you Imagine The Story Better Than I Remember It.

How We Love To Love Things For Other People; How We Love To Have Other People Love Things Through Our Eyes.

It Seems To Me That People Who Don’t Learn As Easily As Others Suffer From A Kind Of Learning Disability—there Is Something Different About The Way They Comprehend Unfamiliar Material—but I Fail To See How This Disability Is Improved By Psychiatric Consultation. What Seems To Be Lacking Is A Technical Ability That Those Of Us Called ‘good Students’ Are Born With. Someone Should Concretely Study These Skills And Teach Them. What Does A Shrink Have To Do With The Process?

Rituals Are Comforting; Rituals Combat Loneliness.

But Writers, Garp Knew, Were Just Observers - Good And Ruthless Imitators Of Human Behavior.