My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
As large publishers turn into monopolies, and the MBAs who are running them - maybe editors used to run them before -… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Kabuki is the way that I so often write; Noh is how I would write if I were more 'spiritual,' more understated,… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I didn't vote for Bush, and I'm not happy particularly that he's president. But I will say I'm impressed that he didn't… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
The first chance I had to go to Japan, which was in the early nineties, I went to a Noh play. I… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
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… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“A treble clef, for example, resembles a Muscovite or Leningrader in a bulky hooded parka. A bass clef bends as simply and painfully as… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“The shortest man, codenamed RIMSKY, said to me that freedom means understanding our place within the laws of history; we are more free when… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information.” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's an Inuit myth about the origin of the human race. There were two brothers, and the younger brother eventually gets changed into a… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
