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Write Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.
- Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is…
- If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.
- The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well…
- You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
- I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical,…
- Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as…
- When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
- If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into…
- Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.
- Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that…
- If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and…
- I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I…
- 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.
- I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply…
- I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.
- I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.
- 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…
- Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who…
- Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that…
- It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for…
- 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.…
- There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered…
- That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole…
- 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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