Confidence Quote by William T. Vollmann

“No one could see her objectively anyway. Even those who saw her for the first time, before she had opened her mouth to sing.…

— Ann Patchett

“It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single…

— Ayn Rand

“She reminded herself bitterly that this was what curiosity had bought her: fifty keystones for a singer who refused to sing, a friend who…

— Marie Rutkoski

“The sweetness and fine expression of her voice attracted his attention to her figure, which had a distinguished air of delicacy and grace; but…

— Ann Radcliffe

“In her opinion her singing falls on deaf ears anyway; there is no lack of enthusiasm and applause, but she has long since given…

— Franz Kafka

“Her attitude was that of some one who wishes to be concealed as much as possible from observation […] her whole body and voice…

— Virginia Woolf

“She believed that people revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like being in the presence…

— Orson Scott Card

“...each moment of being herself, she knew, was a strengthening, an adapting, of who she was; and she didn’t want to be who she…

— Tao Lin

“Wherever you walk, stand or sit, do it with self-confidence and be firmly convinced: I am a singer! Being tentative is one of the…

— Marita Knobel

“another motive as well—namely, to preserve her voice, which had a quality of expressiveness I have rarely encountered. Customarily she spoke with a soft…

— Arthur Golden

“As she sang, she saw the notes float out of her mouth like little butterflies, carrying some of her sadness away, and she knew,…

— Yaa Gyasi

“again, her singing was her only absolute, the only thing that was completely her. a thousand classes hadn't given her this concrete insight: her…

— David Grossman