Quotes Tagged With :vonnegut

The problem with thinking up a new and original idea within a novel is that you have to make sure that....

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.....

The mind reels.

Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying....

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set....

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.

So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking....

... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.....

You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and....