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"Tardiness in literature can make me nervous."
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"Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold."
"The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose."
"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile."
"Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose."
"My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose."
"I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets."
"This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power."
"We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle."
"The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have."
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
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"I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious."
"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."
"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."
"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."
"Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature."
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