Stamina

an Element of Fiction

“Thinking this way, working unit by unit, always keeping in mind what the plan of his story requires him to do but refusing to be hurried to more important things, the writer achieves a story with no dead spots, no blurs, a story in which we find no lapses of aesthetic interest.” John Gardner

“The true young novelist has the stamina, patience, and single-mindedness of a draft horse.” John Gardner