What Art Ought To Do Is Tell Stories Which Are Moment-by-moment Wonderful, Which Are True To Human Experience, And Which In No Way Explain Human Experience.

What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.

John Gardner

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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 ones being to take over the work from time to time.

John Gardner

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As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.

John Gardner

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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 as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself.

John Gardner

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Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John Gardner

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

John Gardner

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One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.

John Gardner

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It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.

John Gardner

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