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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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