John Gardner Quotes
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.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
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Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.
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The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.
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I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear out of nowhere, like out of a dream or an image that I've seen in a book, or even the title of a book that I'm staring at on a shelf. It's a good way to write songs, just stare at a bookshelf!
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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.
