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Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.
— Charles Krauthammer
I will make a battering-ram of my head and make a way through this rough-and-tumble world.
— Louisa May Alcott
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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
Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.
— Mark Vonnegut
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
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
A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.
— Kurt Vonnegut
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I came from a huge extended family of musicians.
— Jake Epstein
Do not allow hate to take root in your heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.
— Edmund Burke
Several were sheer and white.
— Marissa Honeycutt
This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I've only had one serious boyfriend, but we dated for three years.
— Miranda Cosgrove
I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
— Marlon Brando
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.
— 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
As always, work with your figure; draping, pleats, and proportion can work miracles when it comes to hiding flaws and enhancing assets.
— Nina Garcia
If you can't learn about reading and writing from Kurt, maybe you should be doing something else.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Mary Woolley wasn't only a suffragist; she was also a feminist. "Feminism is not a prejudice," she said, "It is a principle.
— Jill Lepore
the ceiling was too high to make out,
— J.K. Rowling
You develop a style from writing a lot.
— Kurt Vonnegut
But that's fetishism, I think, writing books to write books.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Could be worse ... could be raining."
- Igor — Mel Brooks
- Igor — Mel Brooks
She said his music was tuned to the biggest music there ever was, the music of the stars.
— 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
If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
— Ben Kingsley
People whose hearts are at war toward others can't consider others' objections and challenges enough to be able to find a way through them.
— The Arbinger Institute
The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.
— Kurt Vonnegut