The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
TRUMAN CAPOTEWriting stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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