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William H. Gass

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


— William H. Gass


#writing #change

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house


— William H. Gass


#poetry #poets #dreams

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


#short-stories #short-story #symbols #writing #life

...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine of its design...very seriously mislead.


— William H. Gass


#literary-criticism #the-recognitions #twentieth-century #art

Getting even is one reason for writing.


— William H. Gass


#getting #reason #writing

For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.


— William H. Gass


#country #eye #flies #landmarks #looking






About William H. Gass

William H. Gass Quotes




Did you know about William H. Gass?

In 2003 he won the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Test of Time. He has teaching awards from Purdue University and Washington University; in 1968 the Chicago Tribune Award as One of the Ten Best Teachers in the Big Ten. In an interview with Anglistik Gass commented on the subject of his genre and form defying works laughing off the title "Postmodern" and coining himself "Late" or "Decayed Modern"


Gass's Opinion of Metaphor
Gass' view on the topic of metaphor is complex and thoroughly encompassing.

His 1995 novel The Tunnel received the American Book Award. William Howard Gass (born July 30 1924) is an American novelist short story writer essayist critic and former philosophy professor. He has written two novels three collections of short stories a collection of novellas and seven volumes of essays three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which A Temple of Texts (2006) won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.

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