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Mr. Vonnegut speaks at Case Western Reserve University. Picture courtesy of the Wikimedia Foundation.
“I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.”
~Kurt Vonnegut in the Paris Review
Read the whole interview here.
DECEMBER 23, 2011 - Today I'm learning to dive at Fun and Sun Dive and Travel on Malapascua, Philippines (http://bit.ly/vAoQjP). In three days, we be swimming with thresher sharks. Merry Christmas to me :)
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3 Comments
David S. Wills
24 Mar 2010 05:03 am
Great quote. I’m a literature graduate and I often focus on the history of literature… but writing emerges from its own time. Kerouac was obsessed with Thomas Wolfe, but On the Road was something entirely new, and dealing with the world at the time. Hunter S. Thompson tried to emulate Hemingway, but ended up completely unique.
Matt Gibson
24 Mar 2010 05:03 am
True dat. New things always arrive in good time. This quote was in reference to Vonnegut’s lack of literary experience. I like it partly because I found all the rules that I learned in writing class paralyzed me. It took years to shake them off. I mostly like it, though, because he refers to literature as having an asshole.
David S. Wills
25 Mar 2010 07:03 am
Haha, yeah.
I’d glad I studied literature for so long because it armed me with so many writing tools… But ultimately, the more I live in the real world, the better my writing becomes.