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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More Truman Capote Quotes
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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