Books Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters, significant details,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It was a very American story, somehow. 'Lost.' Each community had such stories. Possibly, each family.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.”

— Nikita Allgire

“He was an American, so it seemed only fair to shoot him.”

— Mark Gatiss

“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.”

— Ira Sadoff

“Inevitably, I became distracted by tales that I knew held no promise for us—accounts of murders that had long since been solved, or whose…

— Caleb Carr

“But more than that, they give nobody else credit for knowing how to laugh, or even how to make up his own mind about…

— Gregory Boyington

“Using a wide variety of media, we could demonstrate for our fellow Americans their anxieties, desires, insufficiencies, and frustrations--and how to assuage them all.…

— Joshua Ferris

“Americans have many admirable characteristics, but literary taste is rare among them.”

— Elizabeth Peters

“There’s nothing American audiences like more than a tragedy with a happy ending.”

— Marcus Berkmann