Inspiration

I’m a huge fan or quotes from other writers, and I find them very inspirational. While searching the web today I came across this one by Vonnegut.

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart you feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

I recently read Cat’s Cradle, my third Vonnegut book, and while I was taken back by the off kilter writing style (again) I was floored by his passion and allegory. I read the book in a day and I couldn’t stop turning the pages. It wasn’t the suspense of what was going to happen, but the man’s desire to tell the story with the way he wrote it. I can only hope my passions translate into my writing.