Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
TRUMAN CAPOTEReading 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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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 good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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