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"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."
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"Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all."
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"The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box."
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"The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before."
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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
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"I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra."
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"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."
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"One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased."
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"What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?"
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"The simple act of caring is heroic."
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"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."
Poetry
"The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time."
Time
"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."
Act
"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."
Art
"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."
People
"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
Work
"Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing."
Woman
"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."
Literature
"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."
Suspicion
"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
Opportunity
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