Good writing is rewriting.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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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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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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