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Truman Capote on Writing

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“When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.”

More from Truman Capote

“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.”
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.”
“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. And after that, the whip came down.”
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