Kurt Vonnegut and I - it's not an exaggeration to say we were best friends. And I grew up just idolizing him. — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want… — John Green Copy Share Image
As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“We are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different. KURT VONNEGUT, JR.” — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut. — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read. — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower. — Lorde Copy Share Image
“Billy Pilgrim: "You guys go on without me. I'll be alright." Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Whatever Kurt Vonnegut's ultimate status will be in the annals of literature, he was important to a lot of people right now.… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“I think a reading group should have a snappy name to attract members, don't you?' Mr Peterson didn't ask about my snappy… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things—the people on the… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Нe [Kurt Vonnegut] felt that life was largely a crap shoot and that we simply need to muddle on as best we… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“For example, if she joined the book club — there was always a book club — and hung out with them, her… — Pete Hautman Copy Share Image
Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Everybody should read 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick The Secret Meaning of Things, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fantastic Four #89, Stan Lee and… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I think too much is known about me already. I think biographical information can get in the way of the reading experience.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
[Kurt] Vonnegut once said, if you ever want to know who somebody is... Like you look at Richard Nixon, or Adolf Hitler,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I've just come back from Vegas, and I was in on the caucus process. It's insane. What a mess. And also with… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“Kurt Vonnegut to Shakespeare: I asked him if he had love affairs with men as well as women, knowing how eager my… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me, I’d have killed myself. I think he was too hung up. I’m glad… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Should a writer have a social purpose? Any honest writer is bound to become a critic of the society he lives in,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“... The Sirens of Titan …. … ‘That’s a funny name for a book,’ I said with a gulp. ‘Are those women… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full… — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Copy Share Image
Kurt Vonnegut wasn't a chatty guy, but when he spoke, it was always clear and very funny, in the way that he… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein,… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“[...] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues… — James Morrow Copy Share Image
I wasn't really much of a reader early on, but when I first started getting into reading at around 16 all I… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.” — John Green Copy Share Image
I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.” ―… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I've read some of Kurt Vonnegut letters from when he was young. He was a prisoner of war, and even when he… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
![“Нe [Kurt Vonnegut] felt that life was largely a crap shoot and that we simply need to muddle on as best we can, being as kind and loving to one another as possible, right now. It's a pretty good philosophy, no matter what one's religious beliefs or lack of them.” quote by Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8ab/michael-dirda-3414_belief_e-kurt-vonnegut-felt-that-life-was-large_1672725.jpg)
![“I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of young people, who feel deeply life's absurdity.” quote by Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ad/michael-dirda-3414_absurdity_i-think-that-his-kurt-vonnegut-s-appeal_652900.jpg)
![“Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up…” quote by Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ed7/michael-dirda-3414_1960s_nearly-all-the-writing-of-our-time-is-li_13506.jpg)
![“[Kurt] Vonnegut once said, if you ever want to know who somebody is... Like you look at Richard Nixon, or Adolf Hitler, or Ralph Nader, or anybody who seems like a difficult person to understand, and is therefore not part of the pattern of human behavior. Think about who they were in high school…” quote by P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/900/p-j-o-rourke-184_behavior_kurt-vonnegut-once-said-if-you-ever-want_97504.jpg)
![“Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether you go to prep school or public school or ghetto school or rich suburban school. And actually, it spun off from a Kurt Vonnegut quote.” quote by P. J. O'Rourke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a43/p-j-o-rourke-184_ghetto_finally-one-night-we-were-smoking-pot-wi_324321.jpg)
![“[...] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God exist? from whence springs decency? what sort of species is Homo Sapiens?) were either settled or not worth discusssing, and serious writers should…” quote by James Morrow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ea7/james-morrow-40721_books_as-kurt-vonnegut-pointed-out-the-literar_175007.jpg)
![“I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.” quote by Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4ab/michael-dirda-3414_emphasis_i-think-the-essence-of-kurt-vonnegut-s-h_2901067.jpg)
