4 Quotes by William Gass about writing
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It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
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I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.
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So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them
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Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal
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