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Story Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the…
- Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is…
- A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and…
- Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal…
- I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything…
- Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as…
- There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so…
- I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce.
- The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And,…
- Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
- Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
- egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it…
- If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story…
- The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so…
- I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department.…
- I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in…
- Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or…
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