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"Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality."
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"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."

"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."

"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."

"A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write."

"What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true."

"If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them!"

"I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling."
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"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free."

"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 don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."

"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."

"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."

"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."
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