Quotes by : William H. Gass

They try to thrive. To multiply. To make murder a method of management.

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

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

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

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

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.....

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

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.