KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

William Gaddis Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by William Gaddis

Showing 1-9 of 9 Quotes by William Gaddis

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

~William Gaddis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

~William Gaddis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

~William Gaddis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

~William Gaddis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.

~William Gaddis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?

~William Gaddis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

~William Gaddis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

~William Gaddis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

~William Gaddis

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: December 29th, 1922

Died: December 16th, 1998

Links

Find William Gaddis on Amazon

Related Authors

Richard Bach
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
Jack Kerouac
H. P. Lovecraft
Chuck Palahniuk
Gore Vidal
Elie Wiesel

Popular Authors

Lucille Ball Soren Kierkegaard Marilyn Manson Jackie Robinson Bertrand Russell Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Joseph B. Wirthlin Mark Zuckerberg

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1675 - Edward Teach

1804 - Franklin Pierce

1860 - Hjalmar Branting

1862 - Gilbert Parker

1887 - Boris Karloff

1888 - Harpo Marx

1896 - Klement Gottwald

1916 - Michael Gough

1919 - P. F. Strawson

1920 - Paul Celan

Birthdays on November 23rd
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Alone Art Computers Dad Dating Freedom Home Peace