Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
TRUMAN CAPOTEReading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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