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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.

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To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

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You can't be a good writer in the States anymore because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still ma...more

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I am the penny whistle of American literature.

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For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender...more

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You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alien...more