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Good writing is rewriting.

Truman Capote

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Listening Secret Trouble
It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Better Deep Live Sky
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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Creativity Double Hands Personal Problem Thinking Yourself
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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Age Children Difficult Luck Past Wisdom Yourself
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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Creativity Genius Greatness People Talent
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk Writing
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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Concentration Focus World Yourself
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Future Myself Past Talk
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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Difficult Myself Novel View Writing
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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Bond Friendship Job Time Yourself
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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Destroy Identity Mirror Reaasuarnce Romantic Secret Torture
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Book Children Shoot Yourself
Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Anxiety Mental Myself
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
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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Leaving Remember Talk Voice Wind

Good writing is rewriting.

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