William H. Gass Quotes
If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
William H. Gass
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
J. J. Abrams
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
Quentin Tarantino
Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
Irwin Shaw
Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
R. A. Salvatore
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
Pat Barker
The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.
Henry St. John
Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze.
Sherman Alexie
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
William H. Gass
