Interviewer: All writers complain of the constraint under which they work and of the difficulty of writing.
Blaise Cendrars: To make themselves sound interesting, and they exaggerate. They should talk a little more about their privileges and how lucky they are to be able to earn some return from the practice of their art, a practice I ersonally detest, it's true, but which is all the same a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning. I pity them with all my heart.
-from Writers at Work, The Paris Review Interviews, 3rd Series
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