Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Character, Water, Modern Life

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.49, Melville House

• When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Character, Glasses

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

• Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Character, Glasses

  "Uncovering the secrets of storytelling" by Paul Willis, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2008.

• Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Mad, Water

• Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Rocks, Color

• In the water I am beautiful.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Water, I Am Beautiful

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.30, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing. In the water I am beautiful.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Writing, Helping Others

• There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass of water. The water was dead. So it goes. Air was trying to get out of the dead water. Bubbles were clinging to the walls of the glass, too weak to climb out.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wall, Glasses, Air

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

• Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we can afford to write down this or that. I myself once staged the end of the world on two pieces of paper- at a cost of ...less than a penny, including wear and tear on my typewriter ribbon and the seat of my pants.
  'Think of that.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Thinking, Typewriters

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

• God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fire, Iron, Water

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.74, Dial Press

• What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an Edenic continent stretching forever in all directions. Makes you religious. Takes your breath away.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Giving, Water

  "Vonnegut at 80" by David Hoppe, www.nuvo.net. January 1, 2003.

• In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lakes, Water, Siberia

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