"I remember John’s hands wrapped around his pipe. His scent. I remember descending into the basement of the English De…"

"It's true that, in my books, monsters are always important. People are monsters, people are called monsters by other …"

"Technically our novelists (for instance) are shrewd enough, and publishers and reviewers seem, as never before, eager…"

"[John Gardner would] take one of my early efforts at a story and go over it with me. I remember him as being very pat…"

"I don't know how Gardner might have been with other students when it came time to have conferences with them about th…"

"As my teacher, John C. Gardner did not so much bring me to the word, as he carried me home once again to the flesh of…"

"In general appearance the is an extremely large and powerful fellow, with a beautiful head and speaking countenance, …"

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"When I was a little boy at school, floundering through Herodotus, and getting double doses of fum-fum daily for my An…"