Prose Writers Quotes by William H. Gass

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• The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is…
• If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
• What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.
• Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.
• Getting even is one reason for writing.
• I get very tense working, so I often have to get up and wander around the house. It is very bad on…
• I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
• The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful…
• Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to…
• Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
• Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.
• The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

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