The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
William H. Gass[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.
William H. GassPoetry is cathartic only for the unserious, for in front of the rush of expressive need stands the barrier of form, and when the hurdler's scissored legs and outstretched arms carry him over the bars, the limp in his life, the headache in his heart, the emptiness he's full of, are as absent as his street-shoes, which will pinch and scrape his feet in all the old leathery ways once the race is over and he has to walk through the front door of his future like a brushman with some feckless patter and a chintzy plastic prize.
William H. GassI write because I hate. A lot. Hard.
William H. GassStichwörter: writing
And I am in retirement from love.
William H. GassThe true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
William H. GassWords [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.
William H. GassAh, but what is form but a bum wipe anyhow?
William H. GassNature punishes gluttony, not avarice or hate.
William H. GassIt is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play — the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life — its facility, its use.
William H. GassStichwörter: purpose fiction utility indolence luxury
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