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

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

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....

Wills aren't really strong or weak it is the characters that they express and serve that are.

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

Language is not the lowborn, gawky servant of thought and feeling; it is need, thought, feeling, and....

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

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