John Gardner
Born
in Batavia, New York, The United States
July 21, 1933
Died
September 14, 1982
Website
Genre
Influences
Chaucer
Grendel
82 editions
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published
1971
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The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
29 editions
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published
1984
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On Becoming a Novelist
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36 editions
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1983
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October Light
36 editions
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1976
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Nickel Mountain
36 editions
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1973
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The Sunlight Dialogues (New Directions Paperbook)
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26 editions
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published
1972
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On Moral Fiction
21 editions
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published
1978
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Mickelsson's Ghosts
22 editions
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published
1982
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Freddy's Book
30 editions
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published
1973
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In the Suicide Mountains
14 editions
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1977
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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.”
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“When I was a child I truly loved:
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.”
― Grendel
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.”
― Grendel
“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 rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink.”
― Grendel
― Grendel
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