Monday, January 25, 2010

On writing- Kurt Vonnegut

Writers who are swoopers, it seems to me, find it wonderful that people are funny or tragic or whatever, worth reporting. Without wondering why or how people are alive in the first place.


Bashers, while ostensibly making sentence after sentence as efficient as possible, may actually be breaking down seeming doors and fences, cutting their ways through seeming barbed-wire entanglements, under fire and in an atmosphere of mustard gas, in search of answers to these eternal questions: “What the heck should we be doing? What in heck is really going on?”


from TIMEQUAKE by Kurt Vonnegut