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.
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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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.
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