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William T. Vollmann Quotes

Precisely because I'm a man who is attracted to women, there may be some things that I have to say as a spectator of feminine grace that women themselves may not be able to see.

William T. Vollmann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 28, 1959

Topics

Women Man Grace Say See May

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Andrew Jackson

Power Government People Sovereign

Fact doesn't have to be plausible; it just has to be fact.

John Lanchester

Just Fact Plausible

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.

Robert Metcalfe

People You Create Creating Possible

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.

Robert Nelson

History Art Information Trouble Us

Second marriages can and do create 'real' families.

Stephanie Coontz

Create Real Marriages Second

Twitter is incredibly useful. It's a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer.

Steven Hall

Nature Change Great Me Internet Way

I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess.

Robert Zemeckis

Good Business Day Think Care End

I don't really have time or interest in doing a lot of the crazy things that some of my teenage peers do, mostly because I have such a hectic life that I don't need to add to that chaos by creating my own teenage drama like a lot of teenagers do.

Mikaela Shiffrin

Life Time Crazy Chaos Doing Drama

Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.

Jonathan Kozol

Life Opportunity Children Childhood

Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking.

Chris Crutcher

Me Thinking Language Up Working

I'm still the wife of Emmanuel Macron, not of the president.

Brigitte Macron

Wife President Still

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?

Alice Hoffman

Book Feel Go Sometimes More Real