William H. Gass Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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  The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

  William H. Gass

  Book, Writing, Kids

  William H. Gass (2010). “A Temple of Texts”, p.37, Knopf Group E-Books

• I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.

  William H. Gass

  Dream, Lying, Book

• If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.

  William H. Gass

  Book, Writing, Would Be

  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

  William H. Gass

  Stupid, Book, Brows

• The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

  William H. Gass

  Book, Tails, Gone

  "Habitations of the Word: Essays". Book by William H. Gass, www.nytimes.com. 1984.

• The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is not true. But the reasoning is dazzling.

  William H. Gass

  Book, Ideas, World

  Interview with Stephen Schenkenberg, www.believermag.com. November, 2005.

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