All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can… — Gilbert Sorrentino Business Copy Share Image
“A writer discovers what he knows as he knows it, i.e., as he makes it. No artist writes in order to objectify… — Gilbert Sorrentino Art Copy Share Image
On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on… — Gilbert Sorrentino Attention Copy Share Image
“He may have liked many other things, but we know for certain only that he liked a sweet summer breeze, stars shining… — Gilbert Sorrentino Broken hearts Copy Share Image
“Q: What literary complexities do you find most interesting? That is, what do you like most to "solve," so to speak, as… — Gilbert Sorrentino Books Copy Share Image
“He hadn't "abused" alcohol, but had spent almost four years sitting in a chair drinking jug wine around the clock and looking,… — Gilbert Sorrentino Denial Copy Share Image
…and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have… — Gilbert Sorrentino Buried Copy Share Image
What is this thing called a kiss? French, tongue, soul, chaste, motherly, fatherly, brotherly, sisterly, ass, genital, Judas, trembling, rough, hesitant, sweet,… — Gilbert Sorrentino Ass Copy Share Image
“One must find some structure, even if it be this haphazard one of the alphabet.” — Gilbert Sorrentino Architecture Copy Share Image
“He wiped her forehead and stroked her shoulders, worshiping her pain. He went to get a Coke and brought it back to… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no… — Gilbert Sorrentino Constant Copy Share Image
“There is no sincere stupidity that doesn't create, eventually, its own rationale, conduct, operating procedures, its own critical formulae whereby it may… — Gilbert Sorrentino Business Copy Share Image
“I like to synthesize; I hate analysis. I don’t like to take a subject and break it down into parts; I like… — Gilbert Sorrentino Fragments Copy Share Image
What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch… — Gilbert Sorrentino Competition Copy Share Image
Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations… — Gilbert Sorrentino American woman Copy Share Image
“Outside of the dreary rubbish that is churned out by god knows how many hacks of varying degrees of talent, the novel… — Gilbert Sorrentino Acquired taste Copy Share Image
“What a joke it is to read or hear—as I have read or heard more times than I can count—that writers ‘see… — Gilbert Sorrentino Books Copy Share Image
Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of… — Gilbert Sorrentino Art Copy Share Image
“You are perfectly justified in scoffing at the outrageous transparency of it if I tell you that his wife said that he… — Gilbert Sorrentino Art Copy Share Image
