On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John
Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and
creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication,
Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs
to be guarded against, both from within the writer and from
without; and predicts what the writer can reasonably expect and
what, in general, he or she cannot. "For a certain kind of person,"
Gardner writes, "nothing is more joyful or satisfying than the life
of a novelist." But no other vocation, he is quick to add, is so
fraught with professional and spiritual difficulties. Whether
discussing the supposed value of writer's workshops, explaining the
role of the novelist's agent and editor, or railing against the
seductive fruits of literary elitism, On Becoming a Novelist is an
indispensable, life-affirming handbook for anyone authentically
called to the profession. "A miraculously detailed account of the
creative process." Anne Tyler, Baltimore Sun"
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