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My books always make the best-...

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

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My notion of a great novel is ...

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: ...

The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

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In the world of words, one of ...

In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.

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The best American writers have...

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

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The writer concerned more with...

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

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All serious writers want the o...

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

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When a writer has done the bes...

When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

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There is no trajectory so path...

There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.

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When the writer has done his b...

When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

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Susan Sontag: What she really ...

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

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How long does it take to write...

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

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My own best books have not bee...

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

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It is true that some of my fic...

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

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The response to my books from ...

The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)

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Critics are like ticks on a do...

Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

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A critic is to an author as a ...

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

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James Joyce buried himself in ...

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

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The sneakiest form of literary...

The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.

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Vladimir Nabokov was a writer ...

Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....