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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.

Truman Capote

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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Beginning Book End Myself Theory Writing
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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Dreams Man Poison Store
How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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Appearance Make Up Myself Night Quite Simplicity Young
In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Bloom Break Flower Garden Nature Voice Yourself
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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Art Artist Myself Mystery
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Quiet Reply Voice
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
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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Dreams Herself Home Oneself Reading Road Start Walk
I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination Myself Remember Way
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Life Love Nature Science
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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Born Law Learning Music Painting Perspective Writing Yourself
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Confidence Yourself
The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Appearance Clothes Funny Goodness Sex Yourself
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Friendship Important Myself Relationship Thinking
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Actor Better Himself Stupidity

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.

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