- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really have no interest in myself.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.
- Demoralizing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
- Greatest Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020