“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
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
![“I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension. I am a person who [commits] breaches of decorum - not in private life, but in my work. They are part of my mode of operation. That kind of playfulness is part of my nature in…” quote by William H. Gass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a8/william-h-gass-4166_academic_i-do-have-a-very-conscious-desire-not-to_472581.jpg)
