Quote by William T. Vollmann Download Open image ““All this is the flimsiest speculation, which is God’s gift to historical fictioneers.”” — William T. Vollmann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But know this. All is speculation under the sky. All myth, all religion, all philosophy, all history - is lies.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Idle speculation about God is a fool’s errand. If we wish to know Him in truth, we must rely on what He tells us… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Historical fiction is a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author’s imagination.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“I like what Flaubert once wrote. History is prophecy, looking backwards.” — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
“In life, you will hear many fantastical and astounding things, what is important is sorting out the fact from the fiction.” — T.B. Christensen Copy Share Image
“History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain.” — Péter Esterházy Copy Share Image
“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been… — Ernest Hemingway 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
