Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Heart, Humor, Caring

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

• People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Meaningful, Communication, Order

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.152, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Winning, Ideas, Profound

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

• He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Crazy, Years, Three

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.209, Dial Press

• I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Thinking, Vocabulary

  Source: www.mcsweeneys.net

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