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"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."
"TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives it's like a marriage."
"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."
"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
"Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress."
"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."
"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."
"I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it."
"It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?"
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
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"One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive."
"What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness."
"So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries."
"Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets."
"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."
"And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee."
"I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow."
"Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations."
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