Virtuoso Quotes by William H. Gass

“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

“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

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

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

— William H. Gass

Getting even is one reason for writing.

— William H. Gass

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Excellence is inconveniently difficult.”

— William H. Gass

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

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

“Why were they whining then?...whining, damn them, whining… Because they’d have to give up their hope of living like an animal and return to…

— William H. Gass

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

— William H. Gass

“Then Jethro Furber wondered whether Omensetter wasn't an actor.”

— William H. Gass