Advice for Writers: 10 Takeaways from John Gardner’s “On Becoming a Novelist”
12 min readNov 30, 2019
“A wise and honest assessment of what it is like and what is necessary to become a writer and stay a writer.” (Raymond Carver)
John Gardner was a novelist with an obsession for literary workmanship and a belief in the power of art to enrich life. He wrote fourteen novels and story collections, as well as poetry, children’s books…
