Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Every character has to want something, even if it's only a glass of water.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In went water and loaves of blackbread and sausages and cheese, and out can shit and piss and language.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Make your characters want something right away even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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