Writer Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Any brain worth a nickel knows books are good for us.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“stationery of Magnum Opus,”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Every writer has to write his speech.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You develop a style from writing a lot.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time”

— Kurt Vonnegut

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

— Kurt Vonnegut

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free.”

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

— 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

“And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical.…

— 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 reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

— Kurt Vonnegut

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being…

— 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

One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just…

— 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

This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise…

— 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

“Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at once.There is no beginning, no middle,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I think the climax of the book will be the execution of poor old Edgar Derby,” I said. “The irony is so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message-- describing a situation, a…

— 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

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

— Kurt Vonnegut

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

— Kurt Vonnegut

This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

— Kurt Vonnegut

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.

— Kurt Vonnegut