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  1. John Champlin Gardner Jr. _ On Becoming a Novelist

    As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is 'hot', an invisible wall seems to fall away, and the writer moves easily and surely from one kind of reality to another... Every writer has experienced at least moments of this strange, magical state. Reading student fiction one can spot at once where the power turns on and where it turns off, where the writer writes from 'inspiration' or deep, flowing vision, and where he had to struggle along on mere intellect.
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  2. John Champlin Gardner Jr. _ On Becoming a Novelist

    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.
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