# Quote — Kurt Vonnegut, Between Time and Timbuktu

> I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes. Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

- Author: [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md)
- Book: [Between Time and Timbuktu](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/between-time-and-timbuktu.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/between-time-and-timbuktu/i-have-become

## More from this book

> This script, it seems to me, is the work of professionals who yearned to be as charming as inspired amateurs can sometimes be.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/between-time-and-timbuktu/this-script-it-seems.md)

> I don't like film. Film is too clankingly real, too permanent, too industrial for me. … The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusions. It makes them impossible. It's a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/between-time-and-timbuktu/i-dont-like.md)