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INTERVIEWER
Do you think writers who settle down in California, in the entertainment industry, compromise themselves in some way, or is that a fiction?
ISHERWOOD
I’ll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who’s in the entertainment industry does to some extent. But are you going to sink or swim? There’s a most awful daintiness in the idea that everything you write should be just so—perfection—and all the rest carefully destroyed so that it won’t hurt your image. Often this is a dangerous kind of vanity. Goodness knows, I’ve written lots of stuff that I hate, but there it is, flapping around in the vaults of various motion-picture studios; and sometimes I’ve done good work for the cinema. If you want the money, and you want to live that way, you’ve just got to take it. I suppose, under ideal circumstances, I would say, have some other profession and keep your writing for yourself.
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| Robert Frost, Henry Green, Aldous Huxley, Stephen Spender, W. H. Auden, George Borrow, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, André Gide, Thomas Hardy, D. H. Lawrence, W. Somerset Maugham, William Shakespeare, Edward Thomas, Leo Tolstoy, H. G. Wells, Virgina Woolf, W. B. Yeats |
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