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"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."
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"Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes."
"I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless."
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"All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing."
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"No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you."
"The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down."
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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."
"Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it."
"One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking."
"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."
"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."
"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."
"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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