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John Gardner Quotes

Poor Grendel’s had an accident. So may you all Picture Quote #1

Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below Picture Quote #1

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out Picture Quote #1

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce Picture Quote #1

Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound Picture Quote #1

I understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. all the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. I create the whole universe, blink by blink Picture Quote #1

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They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. ‘Poor Grendel’s had an accident,’ I whisper. ‘So may you all Picture Quote #1

Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know Picture Quote #1

Find a pile of gold and sit on it Picture Quote #1

I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing! Picture Quote #1

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs Picture Quote #1

There is no limit to desire but desire’s needs Picture Quote #1

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Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers Picture Quote #1

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality Picture Quote #1

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time Picture Quote #1

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age Picture Quote #1

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see Picture Quote #1

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water Picture Quote #1

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If you don’t give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he’ll make plenty when he gets to college Picture Quote #1

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images Picture Quote #1

People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it’s impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they’ll keep writing and you’ll have hanged yourself Picture Quote #1

... ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don’t, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you’re not going to be read in twenty years, and that’s that Picture Quote #1

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Poor Grendel’s had an accident. So may you all (John Gardner Quotes) Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below (John Gardner Quotes) Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out. (John Gardner Quotes) Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce (John Gardner Quotes) Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound (John Gardner Quotes) I understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. all the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. I create the whole universe, blink by blink (John Gardner Quotes) They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. ‘Poor Grendel’s had an accident,’ I whisper. ‘So may you all (John Gardner Quotes) Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know (John Gardner Quotes) Find a pile of gold and sit on it (John Gardner Quotes) I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing! (John Gardner Quotes) The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs (John Gardner Quotes) There is no limit to desire but desire’s needs (John Gardner Quotes) Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers (John Gardner Quotes) Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality (John Gardner Quotes) One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time (John Gardner Quotes) So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age (John Gardner Quotes) Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see (John Gardner Quotes) An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water (John Gardner Quotes) If you don’t give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he’ll make plenty when he gets to college (John Gardner Quotes) We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images (John Gardner Quotes) People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it’s impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they’ll keep writing and you’ll have hanged yourself (John Gardner Quotes) ... ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don’t, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you’re not going to be read in twenty years, and that’s that (John Gardner Quotes)