One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of oneโs being to take over the work from time to time.
John GardnerWriting a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.
John Gardneri 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.
John Gardner