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Writing Quotes by William H. Gass
- Getting even is one reason for writing.
- I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
- The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
- If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
- I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.
- It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
- I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.
- The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
- For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of…
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