Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Mental telepathy, with everybody constantly telling everybody everything, produced a sort of generalized indifference to all information.

kind if like social media ...

Some readers find the reiteration of “so it goes” irritating.

i find those readers also irritating.

Moral: Your job is your job. Ya gotta be present for it.

Moxie has limits. So does being well connected.

does it, thlough?

am persuaded that there are among us people who are tragically hooked on preparations for war.

You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed.

She claims that higher rates of mental illness among creative people do occur, although admits that they share “a personality style” which may impact that assertion: They take risks.… They have to confront doubt and rejection. And yet they have to persist in spite of that, because they believe strongly in the value of what they do.