A review by drewjameson
The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner

5.0

There are many reasons why everyone's writing teacher tells them to read this amazing, concrete, in-depth guidebook. Gardner lays out the process of writing, and learning to be a writer, in a practical manner, but always emphasizes the ethical obligation to write something new, something relevant, something bold. As all books by writers on writing seem to do, he indulges a few vague and unsupported flights of fancy and waxes pompous from time to time, but this is by far the most concrete, structural and useful book on writing I've ever read.