William Gass
Summary
- 1924-2017
- american novelist and philosopher
Details
- He would rise early and write in teh morning till noon
- Afternoons were taken up by academic duties - teaching philosophy.
- Apparently he would go out every day and photograph for a couple of hours.
- He said that he writes best when he is angry which is not good for his health.
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Quotes
A colleague once asked Gass if he had any unusual writing habits:
“No, sorry to be boring,” he sighed.…
“How does your day begin?”
“Oh, I go out and photograph for a couple of hours,” he said.
“What do you photograph?”
“The rusty, derelict, overlooked, downtrodden parts of the city. Filth and decay mainly,” he said in a nothing-much-to-it tone of voice, as casually dismissive as the wave of a hand.
“You do this every day, photograph filth and decay?”
“Most days.”
“And then you write?”
“Yes.”
“And you don’t think that’s unusual?”
“Not for me.”