When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
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I'm very bad at violence in real life. I can't stand it. And I'm so fed up with crime novels that have too much violence. I can't really do it. It's unnecessary.
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books.
You can have too much reality.
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
I don't think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.
Violence is very much with us, and we like to see it. I doubt if you can change that, and I'm not sure you should want to. I have occasionally been very upset by something I was writing, but it's quite rare: I keep my writing very separate from my life.
There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
The violence in the Bible is appalling.
The world is too violent right now.
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