William H. Gass said this quote

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

~ William H. Gass

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

~ William H. Gass

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

~ William H. Gass

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

~ William H. Gass