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William H. Gass
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William H. Gass
Age: 93 †
Born: 1924
Born: July 30
Died: 2017
Died: December 6
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Military Officer
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North Dakota
William Howard Gass
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The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.
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When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.
William H. Gass
Getting even is one reason for writing.
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When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope.
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Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.
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I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
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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Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
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I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.
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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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And I am in retirement from love.
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If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
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I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room--a complete mess--so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.
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Surely it's better to live in the country, to live on a prairie by a drawing of rivers, in Iowa or Illinois or Indiana, say, than in any city, in any stinking fog of human beings, in any blooming orchard of machines. It ought to be.
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I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life
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Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.
William H. Gass
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
William H. Gass
I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.
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I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.
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Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.
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