If there is anything in writing that comes easy for me it's making up metaphors. They just appear. I can't move two lines without all kinds of images. Then the problem is how to make the best of them. In its geological character, language is almost invariably metaphorical. That's how meanings tend to change. Words become metaphors for other things, then slowly disappear into the new image. I have a hunch, too, that the core of creativity is located in metaphor, in model making, really. A novel is a large metaphor for the world.
Interview [ADE Bulletin, Number 70, 1981]
Use the link below to read an article about what he considered to be the most important books in his life by North American novelist, essayist, critic and academic WILLIAM H GASS (1924–2017):
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