“My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“He often said he had to be a writer because he wasn't good at anything else. He was not good at being… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Sentences spoken by writers, unless they have been written out first, rarely say what writers wish to say. Writers are unlucky speakers,… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Our freedom to say or write whatever we please in this country is holy to me. It is a rare privilege not… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Now lend me your ears. Here is Creative Writing 101: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way… — Kurt Vonnegut jr Copy Share Image
“It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“People who can read and write expertly, as you can, are miracles and, in my opinion, entitle us to suspect we might… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Then you’ll do it brilliantly, darling. You’ll get to Pittsburgh yet.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree. The” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“He often said he had to be a writer because he wasn't good at anything else. He was not good at being an employee.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“The zero in the telephone number he pronounced "naught." The number was: "2 B R 0 2 B.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“Jones wasn’t completely crazy. The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened unto a system of gears whose… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do with it.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“And Halyard suddenly realized that, just as religion and government had been split into disparate entities centuries before, now, thanks to the machines, politics… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“For once, after the great bloodbath of the war, the world really was cleared of unnatural terrors—mass starvation, mass imprisonment, mass torture, mass murder.… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
