One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.Manuel Puig
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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