“Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.”
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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
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Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
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