"If it's not American, the French won't go see it."

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"Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times."

"When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made."

"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."

"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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"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."

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"English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market."

"It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture."

"There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have."

"I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English."

"I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness."

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