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I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.
I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.
I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.
I write what I write.
If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.
If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.
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Adam Weishaupt
Profession
Clergyman
BirthDate
06 February, 1748
DeathDate
18 November, 1830
Country
Germany
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