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Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
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Kurt Vonnegut • Slaughterhouse-Five
You can steal a plot.
Kurt Vonnegut • Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style
Once I understood what was making America such a dangerous, unhappy nation of people who had nothing to do with real life, I resolved to shun storytelling. I would write about life.
Kurt Vonnegut • Breakfast of Champions
picked him up, and stuffed him in a trash can somewhere in the [school] building. I know all this only secondhand, Kurt never told me, but it was common knowledge. It was no lighthearted joke but seemed to fester with time, because it surfaced at our fiftieth reunion.” Two of the “jocks” of the class opposed having Vonnegut give the main speech at
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Appearance counts. On the page as on the body.
Kurt Vonnegut • Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style
Trout held up a single finger. “One.” “Was it enthusiastic?” “It was insane. The writer said I should be President of the World.” It turned out that the person who had written this letter was Eliot Rosewater, Billy’s friend in the veterans’ hospital near Lake Placid. Billy told Trout about Rosewater. “My God—I thought he was about fourteen years
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