Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.
Source: Reader's Digest, 1 Dec 982.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, (Nov 11 1922-2007), US author, journalist; He is known for black-humor novels about the horrors of the 20th century, Slaughterhouse Five, 1969.