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"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
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"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."
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"Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional."
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"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
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"Television is intensely personal."
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"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare."
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"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."
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"I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories."
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"I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that."
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"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
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"We're just dealing with the kind of warp and woof of television ratings."
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"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."
Mind
"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
"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
"Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps."
World
"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
"I have never sought the reason why I write."
Reason
"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 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."
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