You can't blame a writer for what the characters say. - Truman Capote

"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."

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

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."

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

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."