Comments on: Vonnegut on Literature https://xpatmatt.com/vonnegut-on-literature/ Canadian outdoors and adventure travel writer and photographer Matt Gibson Tue, 15 Sep 2015 13:26:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: David S. Wills https://xpatmatt.com/vonnegut-on-literature/#comment-8241 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:32:48 +0000 http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=1614#comment-8241 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.

]]> By: David S. Wills https://xpatmatt.com/vonnegut-on-literature/#comment-8224 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:33:11 +0000 http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=1614#comment-8224 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.

]]> By: Matt Gibson https://xpatmatt.com/vonnegut-on-literature/#comment-8227 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:46:34 +0000 http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=1614#comment-8227 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.

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