Quotes by : William H. Gass

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

I'd like to look below my eyes and see not language staring back at me, not sentences or single words....

Sure, there are good things, lots, sure, blow jobs, chocolate mousse, winning streaks, the warm fire....

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life.....

In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old....

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder....

It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is....

If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question.....

We shall live for no reason. Then die and be done with it. What a recognition! What shall save us? Only....

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.