Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I am always trying to write.

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God to walk in the room. And when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say 'thank you.'

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to convert it into words... and then you start to create a work of art, and that's another miracle, and it remains mysterious to the writer, or to this writer anyway.

The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.

Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

I've never stopped writing, never stopped recording.

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

I'm finding writing very fascinating.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

The stressful time is the blank page at the beginning. When you're starting to see things being made flesh, and you're able to respond to that flesh, that's really exciting.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

I write all the time and I try to think of ideas all the time.

Writing is more important than being a writer.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

I may have a general broad-based idea of what I want to write about when I sit down to write a book, but I don't have any idea of what it's going to say. I would call my experience of creativity 'inspired by God' to produce certain pieces of information that might be useful to others.

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.