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A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.

— John Dos Passos

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Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel - bound to.

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.

In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans . . . From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people.

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