You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed

Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Topics: Writers Quotes

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she...

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she...

Almost every war ends, properly, with its veterans feeling deceived and pointless and gullible, with...

Almost every war ends, properly, with its veterans feeling deceived and pointless and gullible, with...

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order...

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order...

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I...

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I...

Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is...

Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is...

Dont be reckless with other peoples hearts, and dont put up with people that are...

Dont be reckless with other peoples hearts, and dont put up with people that are...

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a...

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a...

My job is to make people money. If I don't include every factor that moves...

My job is to make people money. If I don't include every factor that moves...

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the...

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the...

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Give a woman a job and she grows balls.

Give a woman a job and she grows balls.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can...

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can...

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair...

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair...

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees...

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees...

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and...

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and...