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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true."
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"Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5. . . . I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them."
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I like the way you always manage to state the obvious with a sense of real discovery.
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Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.
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"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you are a great writer, you must say that you are."
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