Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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the part that he has been waiting for. He's 38 years old. He's never led a movie successfully. When I say 'successfully,' I mean like to the point where it took root in the culture and became a fixture in the culture ... For all of the respect that he gets, it hasn't happened. And this is a role that required everything he absolutely had. This thing took a lot out of him.Truman Capote
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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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