Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.was an American author. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel Slaughterhouse-Five...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth11 November 1922
CountryUnited States of America
art tortoises hares
The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.
should be-careful careful
You should be careful about who you pretend to be, because who you pretend to be - is actually who you are!
mean rocks rock-and-roll
What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.
running risk may
Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.
art writing thinking
So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.
writing thinking our-society
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.
selfish stories remember
A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.
writing trade sane
This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
book adventure profound
I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.
tragedy changed audience
This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.
mind matter importance
You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.
fall kids hands
I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on, why they don't fall off it, how much time they've probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on.
beautiful wife
I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.
jobs character stage
It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.