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…

- Gary Lutz

What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life.

- 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…

- Gary Lutz

I was a great many far cries from myself.

- Gary Lutz

The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out.

- Gary Lutz

My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occas…

- Gary Lutz

I've been within an inch of my life.

- Gary Lutz

It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's …

- Gary Lutz

If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.

- Gary Lutz