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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEHome is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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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 man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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