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William T Vollmann Quotes
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[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, Write about what you know. I think you can do that, and if you want to write about what you don’t know, you can. It just takes a lot more work. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
There have been times when I’m writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can’t help but wonder - ‘What are the people I know going to think about this?’ So I have to remind myself that all is permissible. Art has to be a free space. Language has to be a free space. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
I think that we’re all, as human beings, so limited. If we want to write about ourselves, that’s fairly easy. And if we write about our friends or our families, we can do that. But if we want to project ourselves somewhere beyond our personal experience, we’re going to fail unless we get that experience or we borrow it from others. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
Whenever we have an opportunity to engage with each other as human beings and to minimize the differences between us based on disparity in resources, then we should do it. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it’s getting closer and closer for us. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job. It was a real small place. Guys would come in, and they’d sort of stick out their arms like wings so I could take their coats off. They’d tell me, ‘Two,’ and I’d put two lumps of sugar in their coffee. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
It’s always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I’m so happy when I can stop. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
Really what it gets down to is that my idea of the American life, the American dream, whatever, is that I can do what I wish in the privacy of my own home. And as long as I’m not hurting anyone, no one has a right to know what I do. The main thing that I have to hide is that I don’t have anything to hide. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
When I’m dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may mean, at any time, that I won’t be publishable anymore. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
So much of the destruction on Earth has been wrought by men. Women are the ones who give life and try to pick up the pieces... What a great gender they are. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and improve my sentence structure. If I can make a living doing that stuff, that’s great, and I will keep doing it, and they can do whatever they want with my image. I couldn’t care less (William T Vollmann Quotes)
The case of Afghanistan vs. the Soviet Union is the clearest case of good against evil that I’ve seen in my lifetime. I thought it was terrific the way they got their country back. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
It’s fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It’s a very good exercise for me. And I think it’s important to try to do different things - change what I write about, and also the way I write. Otherwise, I’d just be repeating myself, which wouldn’t be good for me or fair to my readers. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
Everybody is an expert on one thing - that’s what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that’s, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn’t seem like an interesting story, then that’s the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back and expand and explode those sentences, pack as much into them as I could, so they’d kind of be like popcorn kernels popping... all this stuff in there to make the writing dense, and beautiful for its density. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
I don’t believe in a personal God. It’s good to give thanks, whether or not there’s a God. There’s no reason not to live life to the fullest. Morality is all the more important for people who don’t expect to get a piece of celestial candy after they die. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
Everybody is probably guilty of something. I’m sure that if anyone looked into my heart long enough, they could say, you know, ‘Bill had some unkind thoughts back in second grade.’ (William T Vollmann Quotes)
My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing. (William T Vollmann Quotes)
So he lent her books. After all, one of life’s best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I’ve drunk (William T Vollmann Quotes)
The instant people specialize, its in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon (William T Vollmann Quotes)
Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible (William T Vollmann Quotes)
It will be fun to give some to prostitutes (William T Vollmann Quotes)
Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living (William T Vollmann Quotes)
Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories (William T Vollmann Quotes)
This is my final book. Any subsequent productions bearing my name will have been composed by a ghost (William T Vollmann Quotes)
Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night - forests within your skull? (William T Vollmann Quotes)
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