William H. Gass's Quotes

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

Getting even is one reason for writing.

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.