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"One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer."
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"Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for."

"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."

"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."

"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."

"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."

"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."
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