I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
TRUMAN CAPOTEFriendship 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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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