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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.

Truman Capote

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Book Breathe Goodness Hard Myself Thinking
Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Anxiety Mental Myself
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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Life Paper Pieces Reach Tired
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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Appearance Make Up Myself Night Quite Simplicity Young
A boy has to peddle his book.
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Book Boy Education
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Failure Flavor Inspirational Motivational Perspective Success
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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Dreams Herself Home Oneself Reading Road Start Walk
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Friendship Important Myself Relationship Thinking
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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Dreams Man Poison Store
There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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Concentration Focus World Yourself
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Law Live Problem Protection
Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Imagination Key Open Terrorism Walk
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Confidence Yourself
I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Day Life Live Myself Theory Time
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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Bad Difference Fun Goodness Myself Stop True Writing

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.

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