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"If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."

"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."

"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."

"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
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"West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York."


"I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it."


"American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why."


"I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work."


"In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine."
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