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"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
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"The world system is employment."
"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."
"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."
"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."
"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."
"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."
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