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"He who talks much cannot talk well."
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"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
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"The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other."
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"You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host."
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"In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read."
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"What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself."
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"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."
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"I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading."
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"If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns."
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"I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you."
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"The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art."
Art
"Writers always know whether you like them or not."
Media
"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."
Love
"When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before."
Experience
"All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science."
Art
"When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King."
People
"Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend."
Friendship
"I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis."
Literature
"The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans."
Politics
"I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off."
Time
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