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"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."
"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."
"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
"I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything."
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"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force."
"Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly; ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling than to conjure away the burden and bitterness."
"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
"Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?"
"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."
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