The Gaddis
Annotations
Notes on the works of the great 20th-century novelist
William
Gaddis
"I feel like part of the vanishing
breed that thinks a writer should be read and not heard, let
alone seen. I think this is because there seems so often today
to be a tendency to put the person in the place of his or her
work, to turn the creative artist into a performing one, to find
what a writer says about writing somehow more valid, or more
real, than the writing itself."
--from his acceptance
speech for the National Book Award in Fiction for J R , April 1976 |