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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
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One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
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May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
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There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
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There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.
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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
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I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?
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I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
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