“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.”
More from John Gardner
“I dreamed I awakened in a valley where no life stirred, no cry of a fox sparked up out of…”
“The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupidly triumphant.”
“Sometimes the sordidness of his present existence, not to mention the stifling, clammy…”
“Locked in the deadly progression of moon and stars.”