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
war character people
One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
daughter character stories
I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.
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.
character mines has-beens
Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.
sweet character order
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
war character sick
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
character want hocus-pocus
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
character water modern-life
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
character writing roots
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
character people might
A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
character writing want-something
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
character writing two
Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
writing character glasses
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
book character writing
Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.