Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

by William Rodney Allen (Editor), William R. Allen (Editor)

Overview

Kurt Vonnegut says: "I've worked with enough students to know what beginning writers are like, and if they will just talk to me for twenty minutes I can help them so much, because there are such simple things to know. Make a character want something-that's how you begin." William Rodney Allen teaches English at the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts. He is the author of "Walker Percy: The Southern Wayfarer."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878053582
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	10/01/1988
Series:	Literary Conversations Series
Pages:	305
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

William Rodney Allen teaches at Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts. He is author of Walker Percy: A Southern Wayfarer and editor of The Coen Brothers: Interviews and Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

Read an Excerpt

Playboy: Beyond the fact that it's become a profitable way to make a living, why do you write?

Vonnegut: My motives are political. I agree with Stalin and Hitler and Mussolini that the writer should serve his society. I differ with dictators as to how writers should serve. Mainly, I think they should be-and biologically have to be-agents of change. For the better, we hope.