"One must be just a little crazy to……" — John Gardner
"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."
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42 Quotes by John Gardner
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Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure…
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The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
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Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
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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.
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...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways…
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People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might…
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Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.
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As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the…
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It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the…
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I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with…
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Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.
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There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.
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