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
plato what-if meaning-of-life
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
dumb soul meat
My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.
sex technology thinking
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
happiness growing-up disappointment
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
literature speak disappear
Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
brother forgiven living-things
All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.
firsts want break
If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.
work writing common
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
feelings feeling-sad matter
I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.
humor heart caring
Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
interesting wish looks
I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
character writing want-something
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
people wish facts
Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
pain ifs invites
The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.