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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

Writing can't be taught.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Journalists and everyone in America has a constitutional right to express themselves or write what they want to write.

Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.