"I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel."
-Joan Didion
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"Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.“
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"Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power."
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