writers were fortunate enough that they could treat their neurosis every day by writing

“We are so seldom told the truth and in Hamlet, Shakespeare tells us [the truth]; we don’t know enough about life to know what the good news is and what the bad news is, and we [as humans] respond to that.” 

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Practicing art is not a way to make money or become famous, it’s a way to make your soul grow.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

In a 1998 discussion with Lee Stringer for Seven Stories Press, Vonnegut recalls a book called “The Writer and Psychoanalysis” by Edmund Burgler who treated writers in New York for years. Burgler had said that “writers were fortunate enough that they could treat their neurosis every day by writing.”