In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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