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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. - William Gass Quotes

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.

The expression

The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

[For the speedy reader] paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. - William Gass Quotes

[For the speedy reader] paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.

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 Gass Quotes

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.

Books And Reading

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding. - William Gass Quotes

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

We have scarcely gotten home . . . when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. - William Gass Quotes

We have scarcely gotten home . . . when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so.

And the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures. - William Gass Quotes

And the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

Getting even is one reason for writing. - William Gass Quotes

Getting even is one reason for writing.

American Novelist Reason

Works of art are my objects of worship. [They] are often more real than we are because they embody human consciousness completely fulfilled. - William Gass Quotes

Works of art are my objects of worship. [They] are often more real than we are because they embody human consciousness completely fulfilled.

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