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"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
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"If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be."

"If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too."

"I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced."

"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."

"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public."

"I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987."

"So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they're going to come see you, and if they don't, and if you're kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won't come see you."

"I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do."

"Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about."

"You retire when you are sick and when you can't do it any more or when the public retires you. That's the most painful, because that's the one that leaves you wanting to accomplish more."
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"An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself."

"Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all."

"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."

"The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises."

"When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing."
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