"You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road."

--

Richard Price

#War Quotes #Lying Quotes #Kids Quotes

“The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.”
“I detest war; it ruins conversation”
“I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.”
“The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.”
“I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - thatâ€™s kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, Iâ€™m grateful for it.”
“Power is the flower of organization.”
“I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.”

Source : William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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