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Gardner was an advanced thinker who worked day and night to refine his aesthetics and to communicate his sophisticated, yet practical knowledge to students.
John Gardner
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Few writers have had such an impact on a genre of writing in America as Carver had on the short story in that era.
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John Gardner taught short story writer/poet Raymond Carver that writers need “an almost daemonic compulsiveness,” which literary history bears out.
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Writer John Gardner told his writing students that “art depends heavily on feelings, intuition, taste,” and not “rules.”
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Raymond Carver’s knowledge of writing and his future career changed under the teaching and mentorship of noted novelist John Gardner.
John Gardner
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Writer John Gardner’s teaching had such a profound effect on Raymond Carver that Carver said it “went straight into my blood stream and changed the way I looked at things.” To Carver Gardner “was out of a different cloth from anyone else I’d ever met.”
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Raymond Carver’s subject matter had never before been a part of American literature and his writing techniques were also different.
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Treat yourself to something pleasant as a reward for staying with the program.
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Writers who keep daily record of time spent writing outperform writers who don’t keep daily records 4:1.
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In one study people who wrote for a quarter hour to a half hour every day wrote twice as many total hours and produced ten times as many published articles as people who wrote for more than three hours, but sporadically.