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William Gass
 
Date of birth: 30 July 1924
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: America
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" If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine. "

William Gass
" 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. "

William Gass
" And the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures. "

William H Gass
" Books didn't figure in my family very much. However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, old books. In the summers we would go to North Dakota to visit her, and I would get in that attic and read everything in sight. That's when the passion started. I was maybe eight or nine. "

William H Gass
" 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
" Getting even is one reason for writing. "

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" If you believed yourself to be a writer of eminence, you are now assured of being over the hill-not a sturdy mountain flower but a little wilted lily of the valley. "

William H Gass
" Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding. "

William H Gass
" The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. "

William H Gass
" The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal. "

William H Gass
" We have scarcely gotten home... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. "

William H Gass
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