Books Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“You know what I say to people when I hear they’re writing anti-war books?” “No. What do you say, Harrison Starr?” “I say, ‘Why…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?’ What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing anti-war books? I say 'Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I say, ‘Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?’” What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Is it an anti-war book?” “Yes,” I said. “I guess.” “You know what I say to people when I hear they’re writing anti-war books?”…

— Kurt Vonnegut

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He could melt glaciers with that smile. End wars. Resolve the national debt crisis.”

— Kristen Proby

“I’m working on a large project which I hope will become a book. A war book.’ ‘Hasn’t someone already written that one?”

— Jo Nesbø

“So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world, interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat…

— Peter Ackroyd

“You can believe history books when they tell you when wars were fought. You just can’t trust them as to why.”

— Jarod Kintz

“He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind.”

— Arthur Urbane Dilley

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if…

— Ernest Hemingway