So much of what happens in storytelling is mechanical, has to do with the technical problems of how to make a story work. Cowboy stories and policeman stories end in shoot-outs, for example, because shoot-outs are the most reliable mechanisms for making such stories end. There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: "The end."


Paris Review (Spring 1977)

Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

So much of what happens in storytelling is mechanical, has to do with the technical problems of how to make a story work. Cowboy stories and...

So much of what happens in storytelling is mechanical, has to do with the technical problems of how to make a story work. Cowboy stories and...

So much of what happens in storytelling is mechanical, has to do with the technical problems of how to make a story work. Cowboy stories and...

So much of what happens in storytelling is mechanical, has to do with the technical problems of how to make a story work. Cowboy stories and...