Posted in Kurt Vonnegut, Writers, Writing on May 9th, 2007 No Comments »
From the Harvard Crimson, May 19, 2000, an interview with Kurt Vonnegut:
“… As far as being a great writer, that is not the only purpose of writing. The real goal is to make your soul go, not to make a living. Practicing art, even in a mediocre way, can make the soul go. The […]
Posted in Books, Kurt Vonnegut, People, Writers, Writing on April 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
Listen to this: Kurt Vonnegut has died. He vamoosed at the same age as Kilgore Trout, 84.
Hi ho.
He’s gone to meet his sister. She’s been waiting a while. Though I can’t swear to this (it may not be true), I have heard that she told him recently, “Hey, bring your cigarettes. They’re lighting up all […]
Posted in Books, Fiction, Kurt Vonnegut, Writers, Writing on July 15th, 2006 No Comments »
This is an anniversary year. Mind you, every year is an anniversary year of something. Every day could be used to celebrate an event – public or private, births, deaths, weddings and so on. (Today, for example, The History Channel tells us, “The great Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is born in Leiden on July […]
Posted in Business, Kurt Vonnegut on June 26th, 2005 No Comments »
In the introduction to his novel Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut says something to the effect of, “You are what you pretend to be. So you better pretend to be something good.”
I was thinking about this as I read a Creating a Positive Professional Image (which I found through What Do People REALLY Think? on the […]
Posted in Kurt Vonnegut, Web Writing on June 14th, 2004 No Comments »
It’s interesting that I should see a diatribe like The Confessions of an Optimistic Underachiever (found on the.sonnetarium). I’ve been mulling over the same sort of thing in recent months too. (I seem to do so cyclically, about every 10 years.)
The conclusion reminds me of something Kurt Vonnegut wrote at the beginning of his novel […]
