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John Champlin Gardner Jr. Quotes

As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is 'hot', an invisible wall seems to fall away...

John Champlin Gardner Jr.

As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is 'hot', an invisible wall seems to fall away...

I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.

John Champlin Gardner Jr.

I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.

About Author
John Champlin Gardner Jr. (July 21, 1933 – September 14, 1982) was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic, and university professor. He is best known for his 1971 novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view.

I look down past the stars to a terrifying darkness. I seem to recognize the place, but it's impossible. Accident, I whisper. I will fall. I seem to desire the fall, and though I fight it with all my...

John Champlin Gardner Jr.

I look down past the stars to a terrifying darkness. I seem to recognize the place, but it's impossible. Accident, I whisper. I will fall. I seem to desire the fall, and though I fight it with all my...

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

John Champlin Gardner Jr.

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

John Champlin Gardner Jr.

There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

John Champlin Gardner Jr.

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

I understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the r...

John Champlin Gardner Jr.

I understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the r...