Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Character

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

    Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.49, Melville House
  • I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.

    Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.6, Infobase Publishing
  • I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes.

    "Between Time and Timbuktu". Movie script by Kurt Vonnegut et al. Preface, 1972.
  • There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

    KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”
  • It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

    Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • 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 (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books
  • Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

    "Uncovering the secrets of storytelling" by Paul Willis, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2008.
  • Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

    Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197
  • Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.

  • Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.

    Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group
  • A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

    "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater". Book by Kurt Vonnegut. Opening line, 1965.
  • One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

    KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”
  • Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

    "Between Time and Timbuktu". Movie script by Kurt Vonnegut et al. Preface, 1972.
  • Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

    Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group
  • Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

    Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.167, Penguin
  • 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.

    Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group
  • When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.

    Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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