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
doctors want barns
I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.
character printed-word want
I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes.
want breakfast-of-champions charm
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
self want way
I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it ...
artist want impatience
I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’
crazy world want
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God, Why just go ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod.
writing want wells
What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.
people want said
Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.
character want hocus-pocus
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
jesus want messages
If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.
would-be want used
The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.
firsts want break
If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.
character writing want-something
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
dark age want
You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.