My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.

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Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

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