Good writing is rewriting.
TRUMAN CAPOTEEverybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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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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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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