William Howard Gass (b.1924) is 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.
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The expression “to write something down” suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
—William H. Gass
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