Book Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Nothing in this book is true.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Never index your own book.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

— Kurt Vonnegut

That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

— Kurt Vonnegut

People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“people who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened 1 are right to be”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

— Kurt Vonnegut

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Everybody was legally alive now. Before the got their names and numbers in that book, they were missing in action and probably…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The name of the book was The Big Board. He got a few paragraphs into it, and then he realized that he…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I've finished my war book now. The next one I write is going to be fun. This one is a failure, and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because…

— Kurt Vonnegut

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The imagination circuit is taught to respond to the most minimal of cues. A book is an arrangement of 26 phonetic symbols,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much…

— Kurt Vonnegut

While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“An American near Billy wailed that he had excreted everything but his brains. Moments later he said, “There they go, there they…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“[Books] were devices as crassly practical for storing or transmitting language, as the latest Silicon Valley miracles. But by accident, not by…

— Kurt Vonnegut

But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Don’t give up on books. They feel so good—their friendly heft. The sweet reluctance of their pages when you turn them with…

— Kurt Vonnegut