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> [“A writer discovers what he knows as he knows it, i.e., as he makes it. No artist writes in order to objectify an “idea” already formed. It is the poem or novel or story that quite precisely tells him what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/a-writer-discovers-what-he-knows-as-he-knows-it-i-e-as-he-makes-it-no/)

[Gilbert Sorrentino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-sorrentino/)

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## More by Gilbert Sorrentino

> [All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/all-i-do-know-for-certain-after-53-years-in-this-business-is-that/)

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> [“A writer discovers what he knows as he knows it, i.e., as he makes it. No artist writes in order to objectify an “idea”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/a-writer-discovers-what-he-knows-as-he-knows-it-i-e-as-he-makes-it-no/)

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> [“Only death can cure the hip dilettante.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/only-death-can-cure-the-hip-dilettante/)

[Gilbert Sorrentino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-sorrentino/)

> [On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/on-being-blue-celebrates-both-language-and-that-which-it-represents/)

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> [“He may have liked many other things, but we know for certain only that he liked a sweet summer breeze, stars shining softly above,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/he-may-have-liked-many-other-things-but-we-know-for-certain-only-that/)

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> [“Q: What literary complexities do you find most interesting? That is, what do you like most to "solve," so to speak, as a novelist?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/q-what-literary-complexities-do-you-find-most-interesting-that-is/)

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> [“He hadn't "abused" alcohol, but had spent almost four years sitting in a chair drinking jug wine around the clock and looking, variously, at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/he-hadn-t-abused-alcohol-but-had-spent-almost-four-years-sitting-in-a/)

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> […and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/and-to-all-you-other-cats-and-chicks-out-there-sweet-or-otherwise/)

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> [It is no wonder lesbians love women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/it-is-no-wonder-lesbians-love-women/)

[Gilbert Sorrentino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilbert-sorrentino/)

> [What is this thing called a kiss? French, tongue, soul, chaste, motherly, fatherly, brotherly, sisterly, ass, genital, Judas, trembling, rough, hesitant, sweet, soft, wet,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/what-is-this-thing-called-a-kiss-french-tongue-soul-chaste-motherly/)

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> [“One must find some structure, even if it be this haphazard one of the alphabet.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/one-must-find-some-structure-even-if-it-be-this-haphazard-one-of-the/)

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> [“He wiped her forehead and stroked her shoulders, worshiping her pain. He went to get a Coke and brought it back to her, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/he-wiped-her-forehead-and-stroked-her-shoulders-worshiping-her-pain/)

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> [They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/they-want-politics-and-think-it-will-save-them-at-best-it-gives/)

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> [“There is no sincere stupidity that doesn't create, eventually, its own rationale, conduct, operating procedures, its own critical formulae whereby it may be, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/there-is-no-sincere-stupidity-that-doesn-t-create-eventually-its-own/)

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> [“I like to synthesize; I hate analysis. I don’t like to take a subject and break it down into parts; I like to take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilbert-sorrentino/i-like-to-synthesize-i-hate-analysis-i-don-t-like-to-take-a-subject/)

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