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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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"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."
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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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"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."
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"I've appeared on a weekly syndicated television show since 1980."
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"He who is created by television can be destroyed by television."
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"Television speeded everything up."
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"Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them."
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"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended."
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"I haven't killed anyone on television in years and years. Must have been twenty something years."
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"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
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"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
"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."
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"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."
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"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
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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."
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"Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing."
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"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."
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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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"The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time."
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"I have never sought the reason why I write."
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