William Gass
William Gass
William Howard Gassis an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, and former philosophy professor. He has written three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which have won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of Texts, won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. His 1995 novel The Tunnel received the American Book Award. His 2013 novel Middle C won the 2015 William Dean...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 July 1924
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And the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.
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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.
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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.
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We have scarcely gotten home . . . when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so.
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The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.