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Writing Quotes by Truman Capote
- To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
- 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…
- Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
- I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
- I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it…
- 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.…
- It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
- Good writing is rewriting.
- I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't…
- All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like…
- I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.
- 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…
- I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.
- When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may…
- That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
- I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
- That's not writing, that's typing
- I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing.…
- There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working with one's own…
- Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
- You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
- It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something…
- It isn't writing at all - it's typing
- When I think about how good my book could be, I can hardly breathe.
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov