William Gaddis Quotes

William Gaddis — American Novelist born on December 29, 1922, died on December 16, 1998

William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. was an American novelist. The first and longest of his five novels, The Recognitions, was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and two others, J R and A Frolic of His Own, won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. A collection of his essays was published posthumously as The Rush for Second Place. The Letters of William Gaddis was published by Dalkey Archive Press in February 2013... (wikipedia)

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.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

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

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