Kurt Vonnegut on Writing

“Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.”

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“Write to please just one person.”

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of.”

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“Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not!”

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