I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
Source: Practicalities, Walesa's Wife, 1987.
-- Marguerite Duras, (Apr 4 1914-1996), French novelist, playwright; She is internationally known for her screenplays of Hiroshima mon amour, 1959 and India Song, 1975 and her novel novel L'Amant, 1984.