"Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter."

-- Paul Bailey

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“I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection.”
“If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. Itâ€™s the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.”
“In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a sequel.”
“I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.”
“I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.”
“There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.”
“Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.”
“Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more.”

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