"At a certain level, prose simply makes statements. There are times when all you need to know is that..."

“At a certain level, prose simply makes statements. There are times when all you need to know is that it is raining, but a hell of a lot more is going on. And there are other times when you’ve got to get into every raindrop. And sometimes the sentence has to do that.”

- William H. Gass  (via mttbll)