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TRUMAN CAPOTE TALKS ABOUT HIS WRITING PROCESS: 

“I am a completely horizontal author. I can’t think unless I’m lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch…I don’t use a typewriter. Not in the beginning. I write my first version in longhand (pencil). Then I do a complete revision, also in longhand. Essentially I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon. Obsessions of this sort, and the time I take over them, irritate me beyond endurance.”

The Paris Review, Issue 16, 1957