A writer discovers what he knows as he knows it, i.e., as he makes it. No artist writes in order to objectify an “idea” already formed. It is the poem or novel or story that quite precisely tells him what he didn't know he knew: he knows, that is, only in terms of his writing. This is, of course, simply another way of saying that literary composition is not the placing of a held idea into a waiting form.
Gilbert SorrentinoThe maimings of love are endlessly funny....
Gilbert SorrentinoTag: love
Art cannot save anybody from anything.
Gilbert SorrentinoTag: art
…and to all you other cats and chicks out there, sweet or otherwise, buried deep in wordy tombs, who never yet have walked from off the page, a shake and a hug and a kiss and a drink. Cheers!
Gilbert SorrentinoTag: humour
One must find some structure, even if it be this haphazard one of the alphabet.
Gilbert SorrentinoYou are perfectly justified in scoffing at the outrageous transparency of it if I tell you that his wife said that he was so pale that he looked as if he had seen a ghost, but that is, indeed, what she said. Art cannot rescue anybody from anything.
Gilbert SorrentinoAll I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.
Gilbert SorrentinoOnly death can cure the hip dilettante.
Gilbert SorrentinoThere is no sincere stupidity that doesn't create, eventually, its own rationale, conduct, operating procedures, its own critical formulae whereby it may be, in all seriousness, discussed: witness the advertising business. Witness the best-seller list. Areas of idiocy within which various degrees of the spurious are compared.
Gilbert SorrentinoIt is no wonder lesbians love women.
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