I have never sought the reason why I write.

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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.

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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

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The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

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One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

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I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

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