Admire Quote by Michael Dirda

Whatever Kurt Vonnegut's ultimate status will be in the annals of literature, he was important to a lot of people right now. That's what…

— Michael Dirda

“Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven, Tom Wolfe…

— Edward Abbey

Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work

— Charles J. Shields

Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -…

— Michael Dirda

I've read some of Kurt Vonnegut letters from when he was young. He was a prisoner of war, and even when he was in…

— Susan Sarandon

As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.

— Jon Stewart

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

— Louis Sachar

Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great.

— Nelson DeMille

We read everything - from the Unabomber to Camille Paglia to Martin Luther King Jr. - and I really fell in love with the…

— Steven Rinella

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to…

— Jess Walter

I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably…

— D. B. Weiss

“The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you are able.”

— R.S. Guthrie