“...art deals, at its best, with what has never been observed, or observed only peripherally-darts from what is to what might have been-asking with total interest and sobriety such questions as 'what if apple trees could talk?' or 'what if the haughty old woman next door should fall in love with Mr. Powers, our mailman?' The artist's imagination, or the world it builds, is the laboratory of the unexperienced, both the heroic and the unspeakable.” WorldLoveLifeArtArtistImaginationFictionHeroicNew Book:On Moral Fiction Source: On Moral Fiction
“I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.” WorldGoes OnEternalConsciousTransformingWhisperingTransforming The World Book:Grendel Source: 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.” WorldWholeUniverseSawsUnderstoodChaosCasualBrutesBlinkEnmityHopes And Fears Author:John Gardner
“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.” IfsWorldWritingDoeInspirationProcessFictionSpringOriginalsProfoundRewritingAthena Author:John Gardner
