It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

Truman Capote
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It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
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I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending. ✨ Truman Capote (2001). In Cold Blood, p.260, Vintage
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. ✨ Quoted in David Frost The Americans (1970),'When Does A Writer Become A Star'.
What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there. ✨ Truma … ▶
Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity? ✨ Other Voices, Other Rooms.
I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon. ✨ Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). Truman Capote: Conversatio … ▶

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