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"When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing."
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"I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels."
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"The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."
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"Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening."
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"I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be."
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"So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool."
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"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"
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"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."
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"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."
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"Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?"
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"In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before."
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"I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober."
Creativity
"I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal."
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"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."
Talk
"If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship."
Time
"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."
Being
"Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House."
Man
"In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75."
Literature
"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"
Literature
"A writer has to live with a sense of honor."
Honor
"Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life."
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