I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
TRUMAN CAPOTEMost people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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