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Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama.
— Leighton Meester
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
— Kurt Vonnegut
It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.
— Donald Johanson
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I consider writing an act of good citizenship.
— Kurt Vonnegut
We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.
— Carl Hagelin
Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.
— Kurt Vonnegut
She said his music was tuned to the biggest music there ever was, the music of the stars.
— Kurt Vonnegut
A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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.
— Kurt Vonnegut
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.
— Samuel Johnson
Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?
— Abraham Lincoln
A system can not understand itself.
— W. Edwards Deming
This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
— Kurt Vonnegut
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.
— 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've never been a jam-band sort of musician.
— Tom DeLonge
I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.
— Kurt Vonnegut
We make our purpose.
— Carl Sagan
If you can't learn about reading and writing from Kurt, maybe you should be doing something else.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
— Kurt Vonnegut
If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.
— 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.
— Kurt Vonnegut
But that's fetishism, I think, writing books to write books.
— Kurt Vonnegut
You have no control. Who lives, who dies, who tells your story.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
— Ram Dass
You develop a style from writing a lot.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
— Kurt Vonnegut