Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality…

The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of…

— Charles J. Shields

Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-looking little boy, even in informal photographs.

— Charles J. Shields

Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks,…

— Charles J. Shields

My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience…

— Charles J. Shields

On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and…

— Charles J. Shields

“To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon. -Mr. Vonnegut”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“[...] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God…

— James Morrow

“Popular as he was as a graduation speaker, Vonnegut never graduated from college.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower.

— Lorde

“And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“My uncle Alex Vonnegut, a Harvard-educated life insurance salesman who lived at 5033 North Pennsylvania Street, taught me something very important. He said that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

[Kurt] Vonnegut once said, if you ever want to know who somebody is... Like you look at Richard Nixon, or Adolf Hitler, or Ralph…

— P. J. O'Rourke

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to…

— Jess Walter

Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -…

— Michael Dirda

Everybody should read 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and truthful.

— Kalki Koechlin