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"I have never sought the reason why I write."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."
"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."
"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."
"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."
"Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint."
"The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't."
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"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."
"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."
"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."
"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."
"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."
"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."
"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."
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