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"One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."
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"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer."
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"Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault."
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"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."
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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
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"Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible."
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"So the lover must struggle for words."
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"A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books."
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"I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood."
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"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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"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."
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"One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer."
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"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."
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"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."
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"The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail."
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"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."
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"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
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"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
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