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Steven Spielberg, confessing what attracted him to Alice Walker’s novel, “The Color Purple,” to the Philadelphia Daily News’ Joe Baltake:
“I hardly read anything at all. It was unusual for me to find the time to read this. I know this must sound terrible but the reason I read it is because it’s thin. If it had been a big fat novel, we wouldn’t be here. . . .”
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