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"Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail."
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"A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it."
"People get bitten. But I won't.' I found myself saying, 'You will, you will. These snakes don't know you find death inconceivable. They don't know you're young and strong and you think death applies to everyone but you. They will bite you and you will die."
"When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear."
"Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justification enough for our hopes and dreams, although I wouldn't say that to a dying man."
"I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?"
"People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power."
"One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language."
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