Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Reading, Believe, Writing

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

• And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Reading, Grandchildren

• There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Reading, Wonderful

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.194, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Reading, Astrology, Government

  Kurt Vonnegut's address to the graduating class at Bennington College, 1970.

• You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Reading, Here I Am, Headlines

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Breakfast Of Champions”, p.226, Random House

• Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Reading, Long

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

• How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Couple, Book, Reading

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