John Gardner
John Gardner
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 July 1933
CountryUnited States of America
learning less mature people reasons risk stop willing
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
amateur impact phenomenal
He has had phenomenal impact on amateur hockey.
easily gives momentary pleasure separates victim
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
became caused education major obligation opportunity putting research turn university
The university became the major generator of U.S. research. That caused an opportunity and an obligation to turn that research into results, putting research and education together.
disguised faced great series
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
activity alleged changed conditions fact happening occurred question
The question is not what's happening in 1998, but what if any anticompetitive activity occurred in the past. The fact that competitive conditions have changed would not vitiate any alleged anticompetitive activity in the past.
reality self giving
Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
patriotic political citizens
The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.
wall struggle moving
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, and the writer moves easily and surely from one kind of reality to another... Every writer has experienced at least moments of this strange, magical state. Reading student fiction one can spot at once where the power turns on and where it turns off, where the writer writes from 'inspiration' or deep, flowing vision, and where he had to struggle along on mere intellect.
writing imagination knows
Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know
writing people might
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.
spring inspiration writing
Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.
kindness thoughtful people
When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
goes-on whispering world
I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.