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Truman Capote on Writing

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“Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.”

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“I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.”
“When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.”
“When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.”
“That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.”
“Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.”
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