Quotes by William Gass

• 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.
• 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.
• Fear less, love more, gamble on life; cheerly guess at slaughters, fifth/Aye or nay. So somebody can safely say, approving words remember things improbable.