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Kurt Vonnegut on writing
  • INTERVIEWER:
    Could you put the theory into a few words?

  • VONNEGUT:
    It was stated by Paul Engle—the founder of the Writers’ Workshop at Iowa. He told me that, if the workshop ever got a building of its own, these words should be inscribed over the entrance: Don’t take it all so seriously.

  • INTERVIEWER:
    And how would that be helpful?

  • VONNEGUT:
    It would remind the students that they were learning to play practical jokes.

  • INTERVIEWER:
    Practical jokes?

  • VONNEGUT:
    If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.




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