Quotes by John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

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This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It's not his point of departure but his goal. T — John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
The writer's characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that nothing they do stri — John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
As in the universe every atom has an effect, however minuscule, on every other atom, so that to pinch the fabric of Time — John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the ch — John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, each inextricably conn — John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily throu — John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
...{N}othing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or — John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers