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
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
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
“going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.” — John Green 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
For us the Dresden Dolls were porcelain dolls that were made in that city at the time, that is what they were… — Brian Viglione 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 want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to… — Richie Sambora 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
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
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
“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
“If there is to be no ceiling on the amount of money a man can take out of our economy, then concomitantly… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
[Kurt] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing,… — Michael Dirda 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
“I congratulate you people on being in the raging mainstream of the arts. It is commercial artists like myself who operate in… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
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
“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
“Following the emergence of leaked information regarding Alice Calloway, Etgar Allison has suffered considerable loss motivation, energy and interest in his usual… — Ben Brooks 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
“The Disruption Machine What the gospel of innovation gets wrong. by Jill Lepore In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you any different. KURT VONNEGUT, JR.” — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s wet and round and crowded. At… — Alicia Silverstone 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
“recommended gunter reading list. Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks.… — Ernest Cline 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
It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what… — Etgar Keret 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
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![“[Kurt] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing, he wasn't showing off, he was just telling you, nobody else, what it was like, what it was all about. That intimacy made him beloved. We can admire the art of John Updike or…” quote by Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/beb/michael-dirda-3414_admire_kurt-vonnegut-was-a-writer-whose-great-g_2525625.jpg)
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