What true materialist would settle for a MacDonald's hamburger?
John GardnerThe instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.)
John GardnerTags: books writing fiction authors instruction craft craftsmanship pulp-fiction technique pulp how-to-write genre-fiction how-to-write-fiction low-brow
He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, each inextricably connected to the others; he must make his whole world in a single, coherent gesture, as a potter makes a pot...
John GardnerTags: writing story character writer plot setting
Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind.
John GardnerTags: junk-fiction junk-mind
Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer.
John GardnerTags: pornographer
Stars, spattered out through lifeless night from end to end, like jewels scattered in a dead king's grave, tease, torment my wits toward meaningful patterns that do not exist.
John GardnerTags: existential beowulf grendel
Heidegger’s parlamblings on ‘Nothing’ and ‘Not’ and ‘the Nothing that Nothings’ were the last supposedly respectable gasp of classical philosophy.
John GardnerTags: john-gardner heidegger mickelsson-s-ghosts
All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.
John GardnerTags: conformity status-quo
It's not easy to kill a mountain goat. He thinks with his spine.
John GardnerMastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.
John GardnerTags: power inspiration mastery
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