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" I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature. "

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" Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing. "

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" I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality. "

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" I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah! "

" What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. "

" I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause. "

" Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them. "

" A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway. "

" A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. "

" For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist. "

" Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey. "

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" Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy. "

" I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it. "

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" Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences. "

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" Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer. "

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