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 CAPOTEImagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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