Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote

"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it."

"Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries."

"all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved."

"You can't blame a writer for what the characters say."

"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."