"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."

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"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."

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"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."

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"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."

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"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."

Movies

"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing."

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"Writers are not meant for action."

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

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"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."

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

Time

"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free."

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"Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature."

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"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."

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

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