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“I have never felt at ease in language. I did not grow up among books or among people who read them. I heard words emerge from mouths but didn't get the hang of how people hung the things out as if on lines to get their gripes and recreational distempers yowlingly known.”

Quote by Gary Lutz

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Gary Lutz

Gary Lutz (born 1955) is an American writer, essayist, and creative writing teacher known for his highly experimental prose style and meticulous attention to sentence structure. His work often explores themes of loneliness, alienation, and the absurdities of everyday life. Lutz is the author of several short story collections, including Stories in the Worst Way and Partial List of People to Bleach. He has taught creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh for many years and is regarded as a 'writer's writer' within avant-garde literary circles. His influence extends to the field of experimental fiction and writing pedagogy. more

“I learned to read but not to comprehend, and that might well have stood me in good stead, because what's there to understand, really? Everything I later learned to understand was unspeakably ugly anyway. In time, I bought some rulebooks and squeezed my way onto the honor roll, but, decades later, I've been pointed toward people described as "actively dying" who only now and then seemed to be going about it friskily.There was mostly no hustle I could notice.”

People Dying Honor Ugly My Way Now And Then Hustle

Author:Gary Lutz

“I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for the first frillily syllabled thing to come along.”

Fall

Author:Gary Lutz

“There's much too much mismating in the Microsofted phrasery of our day. And I like sentences that are societies unto themselves and shun any need for paragraphic shelter and fellowship. But I don't like seeing paper going to waste, either.”

Author:Gary Lutz

“A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.”

Want Children Poor Percent Areas Majority Population Abortion Minorities Clinic

Author:Alveda King

“We reject President Donald Trump's view. It was a mistake to say that 'the Islamic world divided into "good" and "evil"', a major wrongdoing.”