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
life-changing slaughterhouse-five trying
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
slaughterhouse-five chaos slaughterhouse-5
All this happened, more or less.
thinking two three
You are better than you think. A-one, a-two a-three.
nazi made understood
That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away.
life would-be
Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.
writing ideas scratches
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.
civilization ideas might
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.
forever searching-for-love form
Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
writing should-have giving
Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
sorry loses im-sorry
There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.
nature earth environment
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
freedom writing perfect
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
years equal
The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
food fabulous kind
You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.