Quotes by : John Gardner

True art is by nature moral. We recognize true art by its careful, thoroughly honest search for and analysis....

I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.

Bad art is always basically creepy that is its first and most obvious identifying sign

This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It's not his point of departure....

The point is, whether or not they show it at dinner parties, writers learn, by a necessity of their trade,....

God be kind to all good Samaritans and also bad ones. For such is the kingdom of heaven.

As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day,....

A dragon is a confusion at the heart of things, a law unto himself. He embraces good, evil, and indifference;....

When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived,And....

The people I've known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers.