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"Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it."
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"Who will observe the observers?"
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"I will never be below the title."
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"Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues."
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"Scholars will argue with each other about everything."
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"I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box."
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"Where there is a will there is a lawsuit."
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"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them."
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"Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."
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"It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves."
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"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer."
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"It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can."
Books
"I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about."
Nature
"When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises."
Will
"Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions."
Science
"By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets."
People
"Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes."
Time
"When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while."
Preparation
"A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing."
Books
"My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination."
Imagination
"I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me."
Comedy
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