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As affable and loquacious as he was, Kurt Vonnegut disliked interviews. In
Palm Sunday, he mentions his distaste for the process itself, of being subjected to an interviewer s desperate attempts at carving open his brain in order to mine it for ideas.
Considering his objections, we are rather lucky that Kurt Vonnegut still went under the interviewer s knife from time to time, for few people have ever had as many interesting things to say as he did. His insights into writing were especially valuable, sage, and practical. Here are 15 funny and wise examples.
1. “I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.”