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Author - William H. Gass
Quotes by : William H. Gass
sex
Some screw for science only in the afternoon, while others keep their faith with evening—here Orcutt....
writers
So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses....
disappointment
Sing of disappointments more repeated than the batter of the sea, of lives embittered by resentments....
worship
Sure, there are good things, lots, sure, blow jobs, chocolate mousse, winning streaks, the warm fire....
purpose
It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is....
paris review interview
If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question.....
salvation
We shall live for no reason. Then die and be done with it. What a recognition! What shall save us? Only....
writing process
As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries:....
writing
I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.
fire
He could have set fire to it, the garden was dry enough, and burned it clean—privet, vines, and weeds;....
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