Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
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Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts
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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
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For me, a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.
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