Quote from: Love Topic

If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is an answer. I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. And if someone asks me the inevitable next dumb question, “Why do you write the way you do?” I must answer that I wish to make my hatred acceptable because my hatred is much of me, if not the best part. Writing is a way of making the writer acceptable to the world—every cheap, dumb, nasty thought, every despicable desire, every noble sentiment, every expensive taste.


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Author Bio


  • NameWilliam H. Gass
  • DescriptionFiction writer, critic, philosophy professor
  • BornJuly 30, 1924
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionOfficer; Novelist; Journalist; Essayist; Writer
  • WorksThe Tunnel; Omensetter's Luck
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship