If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions...

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions...

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped...

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped...

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or...

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or...

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like...

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like...

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel....

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel....

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their...

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their...

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is...

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is...

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States....

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States....

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of...

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of...

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same...

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same...

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those...

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those...

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces,...

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces,...

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is...

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is...

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for...

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for...

I only understand realism.

I only understand realism.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious...

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious...

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's...

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's...