Quotes by : William H. Gass

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

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold they change the world into words.

Still, we permit the appearance of our meats, sauces, fruits, and vdgetables to dominate our tongues....

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....

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries:....

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

He could have set fire to it, the garden was dry enough, and burned it clean—privet, vines, and weeds;....

Every day he thought would last forever, and the night forever, and the dawn drag eternally another long....