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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
"You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative."
"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."
"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."
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"When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city."
"What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way."
"My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding."
"After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half."
"I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing."
"What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading."
"I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language."
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