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"When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer."
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"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."
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"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."
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"When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair."
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"In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it."
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"Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!"
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"Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store."
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"The internet has become a carefully controlled and heavily monitored illusion. It has turned into both a circus and battleground. Popularity is rigged and can be bought. Censorship is in full effect. Popular opinion is fabricated, and the perception of a viewpoint's popularity is typically orchestrated and manipulated by legions of paid trolls. If you want to know the truth about somebody's true popularity and influence, look to the streets. If you want to know if a person is really guilty or innocent, study the facts yourself. Never judge anybody based on what you see or read on the internet. Information can easily be manipulated by the push of a few buttons."
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"Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived."
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"If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard."
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"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."
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"The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along."
Existence
"I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis."
Literature
"Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel."
Books
"Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present."
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"It's funny to be a critic."
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"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."
Reading
"I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley."
Work
"It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end."
Literature
"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath."
Nothing
"Writers always know whether you like them or not."
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