Quotes From "Bagombo Snuff Box" By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Write to please just one person. If you open a...
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Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your...
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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."[ From the preface.] Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no...
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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 Jr.