Top 38 Vonnegut Book Quotes
#1. Going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.
John Green
#2. All persons, places, and events in this book are real. Certain speeches and thoughts are necessarily constructions by the author. No names have been changed to protect the innocent, since God Almighty protects the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine.
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.
Kurt Vonnegut
#4. At the core of each person who reads this book is a band of unwavering light.
Kurt Vonnegut
#6. Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.
Mark Vonnegut
#7. 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
#8. Socrates talks to an old duffer about what old age is like. The old duffer says in effect (I can't put my hands on the book just now) that he feels as though he'd been freed from a cruel and unreasonable master.
Kurt Vonnegut
#9. What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.
Mark Vonnegut
#10. People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened 1 are right to be
Kurt Vonnegut
#11. I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.
Kurt Vonnegut
#12. A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.
Kurt Vonnegut
#13. Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.
Kurt Vonnegut
#14. Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.
Kurt Vonnegut
#15. I'm your Creator", I said. "You're in the middle of a book right now-close to the end of it, actually.
Kurt Vonnegut
#16. My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about.
Steven Wright
#17. How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.
Kurt Vonnegut
#18. 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 easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that too.
Kurt Vonnegut
#19. Don't be a fool! Close this book at once! It is nothing but foma!
Foma, of course, are lies.
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work
Charles J. Shields
#21. That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.
Kurt Vonnegut
#22. 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
#23. I was about to be attacked by a Doberman pinscher. He was a leading character in an earlier version of this book. ***
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#24. Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.
Kurt Vonnegut
#25. Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
Kurt Vonnegut
#27. For example, if she joined the book club - there was always a book club - and hung out with them, her choice of guys would be limited to the dark and moody Chuck Palahniuk/Kurt Vonnegut/Life-Sucks-and-Then-You-Die brooders.
Pete Hautman
#28. If you would write a book about that and give the answer to that question, that 'why?' - you would have a very great book
Kurt Vonnegut
#29. 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?" "No. What do you say, Harrison Starr?
Kurt Vonnegut
#30. I am not writing this book for people below the age of 18, but I see no harm in telling young people to prepare for failure rather than success, since failure is the main thing that is going to happen to them.
Kurt Vonnegut
#31. There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life ... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.
Kurt Vonnegut
#32. The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them.
Kurt Vonnegut
#33. There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
Kurt Vonnegut
#34. I am programmed at fifty to perform childishly - to insult "The Star-Spangled Banner," to scrawl pictures of a Nazi flag and an asshole and a lot of other things with a felt-tipped pen. To give an idea of the maturity of my illustrations for this book, here is my picture of an asshole:
Kurt Vonnegut
#35. Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.
Kurt Vonnegut
#36. Wrote the name and serial number of each prisoner in a big, red ledger. Everybody was legally alive now. Before they got their names and numbers in that book, they were missing in action and probably dead. So it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut
#37. The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?"
It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period.
This is it: "Nothing.
Kurt Vonnegut
#38. Moments later he said, "There they go, there they go." He meant his brains. That was I. That was me. That was the author of this book.
Kurt Vonnegut
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