Erich Segal
Erich Segal
Erich Wolf Segalwas an American author, screenwriter, and educator. He was best known for writing the novel Love Story, a best-seller, and writing the motion picture of the same name, which was a major hit...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 June 1937
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
genius brilliant madness
Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness
beautiful girl years
What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me.
cry please ifs
Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.
pain knowing done
The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.
war thinking said
I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps.
stones way faces
What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?" she asked. "I never see his face." "He wears a mask?" "In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.
sacred professors priests
Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.
daughter father bullshit
He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit thy father," she said.
air renaissance way
I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.
mural watercolors
This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
eye body jenny
Jenny, if you're so convinced I'm a loser, why did you bulldoze me into buying you coffee?' She looked me straight in the eye and smiled. 'I like your body,' she said.
brain location rage
although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.
books both dated june love novel olympic scholarly screenplay stanley wrote
I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' about the Olympic Games. I wrote 'Love Story,' both the novel and the screenplay. I wrote 'RPM' for Stanley Kramer. Plus, I wrote two scholarly books and a 400-page translation from the Latin, and I dated June Wilkinson!