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- Birth nameJohn Champlin Garder
- John Gardner was born on July 21, 1933 in Batavia, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Grendel, Nickel Mountain (1984) and Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981). He died on September 14, 1982 in Sasquehanna, Pennsylvania, USA.
- In 1982, his novel, 'Grendel', was adapted as a stage play by Indianapolis actor Bart Simpson, who is now the artistic director of The Blue Monkey Sideshow.
- Now, invulnerable, I was as solitary as one live tree in a vast landscape of coal.
- The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.
- True art is by its nature moral. We recognize true art by its careful, thoroughly honest search for and analysis of values.
- I understood 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.
- 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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