“Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.” BookMightWould BeAccomplish Book:Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir Source: Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir
“Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something.” IfsBookSelfHardEnoughWrittenSonAll ThingsDoctorsAddNotesPatientExesHarvardNote To SelfSelf Being Author:Mark Vonnegut
“What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.” PeopleWorldBookDifferentImagineDamnImagine ThatDifferent Place Author:Mark Vonnegut