"Works of art are meant to be lived……" — William H. Gass
"Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone—in order to know them better, not in order to know something else."
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William H. Gass
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41 Quotes by William H. Gass
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What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.
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Getting even is one reason for writing.
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The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and…
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Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
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Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.
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The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
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