“He was saner than anyone --had fallen out of the world of illusion: love, interesting work, hope for the future.” — John Gardner Hope for the future Copy Share Image
Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself,… — John Gardner Art Copy Share Image
“Fiction, like sculpture or painting, begins with a rough sketch. One gets down the characters and their behavior any way one can,… — john gardner First-draft Copy Share Image
“The conclusion suggests that he has used them rather than cared about them, much as a preacher uses old stories and straw… — John Gardner Wisdom Copy Share Image
“Heidegger’s parlamblings on ‘Nothing’ and ‘Not’ and ‘the Nothing that Nothings’ were the last supposedly respectable gasp of classical philosophy.” — John Gardner Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Only very odd people don’t realize that truth-telling is always a relative value.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when one cannot stand the story or novel one is working on, it helps to write something else—a different story or… — John Gardner Books Copy Share Image
“It's not easy to kill a mountain goat. He thinks with his spine.” — John Gardner Grendel Copy Share Image
“The world is all pointless accident... I exist, nothing else.” — John Gardner Inspirational Copy Share Image
“I know what's in your mind. I know everything. That's what makes me so sick and old and tired.” — John Gardner Psychology Copy Share Image
“Sentimentality, in all its forms, is the attempt to get some effect without providing due cause. (I take it for granted that… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
