Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA boy has to peddle his book.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Writing 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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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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