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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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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."
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"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."
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"I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private."
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"The public is entitled to know whether or not I am married to Jack The Ripper."
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"It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is."
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"Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA."
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"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."
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"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."
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"I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this."
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"You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer."
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"There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough."
Books
"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."
Family
"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."
Talent
"Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form."
Fiction
"In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that."
Literature
"Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody."
Literature
"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."
Talk
"Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American."
Literature
"Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own."
Work
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