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
twists
Everything is nothing, with a twist.
life writing creating
Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don't show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.
school thinking experience
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
running hate long
Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.
thinking people answers
Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
way use stranger
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
love inspirational life
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
writing pneumonia making-love
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
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.
thinking
I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.
maturity knowing way
Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
voice people would-be
When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, "It is done." People did not like it here.
war gun pigs
Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.
mistake thinking alive
That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.