Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYou can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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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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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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