“People like to re-invent you, according to cliché. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote or Mailer or somebody else. Everything is a mish mash.”
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“Age bothers everybody. I was never narcissistic about my looks, but people thought that I should be so therefore I was.”
“Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.”
“People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.”
“If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.”
“Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.”
“No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.”
“I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.”
“Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.”
“Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.”
“People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful.”
“I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.”
“If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.”
“I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.”
“It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.”
“Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.”
“My dad isn't sure how I make a living because I'm not in the newspapers or on music shows any more. The world is bigger than England, however, but for the large part, yes, people don't know who I am. What are you gonna do? Unless you're a superstar act that attracts young people because it might be their last chance to see you before you die, then it's fairly typical. I'm astonished that I have any audience at all, to be honest.”
“If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.”
“People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830”
“People always remember the second half.”