Young woman Quotes 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…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

“Only death can cure the hip dilettante.”

— 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…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

“Q: What literary complexities do you find most interesting? That is, what do you like most to "solve," so to speak, as a novelist?…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

“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…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

…and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

It is no wonder lesbians love women.

— 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,…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

“One must find some structure, even if it be this haphazard one of the alphabet.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

“He wiped her forehead and stroked her shoulders, worshiping her pain. He went to get a Coke and brought it back to her, but…

— Gilbert Sorrentino