"Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe."

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Truman Capote

#Reading Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor.”
“When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.”
“I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, too, as soon as ye can sit down again." "As for my pleasure..." His lip twitched. "I said I would have to punish you. I did not say I wasna going to enjoy it." He crooked a finger at me. "Come here.”
“I never made any reference to John Podesta's email.Does it say #WikiLeaks, #Assange? Julian Assange said, Stone predicted that his emails would be hacked. No, I didn't. I never said anything of the kind.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories donâ€™t usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose Iâ€™m saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place.”
“Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?”

Source : Diane Glancy (1991). “Lone Dog's Winter Count”
“I would do this for free as long as you're doing it for free.”
“In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.”

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