William H. Gass Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  William H. Gass

  Book, Writing, Kids

  William H. Gass (2010). “A Temple of Texts”, p.37, Knopf Group E-Books

• For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

  William H. Gass

  Writing, Character, Stories

• The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

  William H. Gass

  Writing, Expression, Movement

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

  William H. Gass

  Writing, Want, Fiction

  William H. Gass (2014). “On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry”, p.32, New York Review of Books

• Getting even is one reason for writing.

  William H. Gass

  Writing, Reason

• I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.

  William H. Gass

  Writing, Editors, Habit

  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

  William H. Gass

  Book, Writing, Would Be

  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

  William H. Gass

  Hate, Writing, I Hate

  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them

  William H. Gass

  Plato, Giving Up, Writing

  William H. Gass (2014). “On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry”, p.89, New York Review of Books

• I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.

  William H. Gass

  Writing, Order, Pieces

  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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