“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.” IfsWantI CanCareBeautifulFallStuffCan DoRacePaintingStructureFalling In LoveSentencesNow And ThenRescueBeautiful WomenWanting To Fall In LoveSentence StructureI Want To Fall In Love Author:William T. Vollmann
“Whereas if I want to create a prostitute character now from memories of different prostitutes and inventing stuff, I can say, "this could happen," "this is quite plausible." But I don't feel I know enough about border life to do the latter.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsI CanDifferentEnoughCharacterHappensStuffMemoriesBordersLatterInventingPlausible Author:William T. Vollmann
“[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.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantWritingSaidCan Do Author:William T. Vollmann
“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.” IfsThinkingWantWritingHumansEasyCan DoHuman BeingsFailingProjectsOur FamilyPersonal Experiences Author:William T. Vollmann
“I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a lot of appeal to that. It's nice to think of it as this playful kind of thing. But I think that another way to look at it is "Look, I just want to be sincere. I want to write something and make you feel something and maybe you will go out and do something." And it seems that the world is in such bad shape now that we don't have time to do nothing but language games. That's how it seems to me.” ThinkingWorldWayWantFeelsWritingLooksKindIdeasRealBigsSeemsReadingLiteratureGamesLanguageNiceShapesAppealsSincereAnother WayReading And WritingComparative LiteratureStructuralism Author:William T. Vollmann
“Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life is what we want it to be may conceivably bring about the desired condition. Hence religious parables, socialist realism, Nazi propaganda. And if this story likewise crawls with reactionary supernaturalism, that might be because its author longs to see letters scuttling across ceilings, cautiously beginning to reify themselves into angels. For if they could only do that, then why not us?” IfsWantWellsMayStoriesMightLife IsCausesReligiousFictionConditionsAngelLettersAgreeMereCriticsPropagandaWhy NotFalsehoodRealismSocialistNaziPornographyCeilingsPretenseReactionariesProtagonistsParablesNazi Propaganda Book:Europe Central Source: Europe Central
