Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
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