“Why were they whining then?...whining, damn them, whining… Because they’d have to give up their hope of living like an animal and… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension.… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“We do not converse. She visits me to talk. My task to murmur. She talks about her grandsons, her daughter who lives… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“So–in short–color is consciousness itself, color is feeling, and shape is the distance color goes securely, as in our life we extend… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“We were late among the living, and by the time God got to us ice was already slipping from the poles as… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Is it really possible that the finest sensations in life are simple: the delicate brush of Lou’s hair across my chest, for… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“For suppose, and mind it narrowly, that life is simply a shadow bodies cast inside themselves when struck by all those queerly… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“The novel does not say, it shows; it shows me my life in a figure: it compels me to stare at my… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Try to remember that artists in these catastrophic times, along with the serious scientists, are the only salvation for us, if there is to… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“It's a simple world for her. A curtain fluttering - that's how she is - lives, moves - obediently, yet with every appearnace of… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“I dreamed my lips would drift down your back like a skiff on a river. I'd follow a vein with the point of my… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Yes, we call it recursive, the act of reading, of looping the loop, of continually returning to an earlier group of words, behaving like… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Then let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish verb… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
