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But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it. . . demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

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A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it's not always easy to empathize with privileged people.

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We go to literature because it shows us some set of humane values. It is showing us how to live.

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There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.

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I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.

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I think writers can gain a lot of vitality from being misread.

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Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

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