"No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me."

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"No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me."

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"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."

"One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!"

"I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive."

"What atonement is there for blood spilt upon the earth?"

"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."

"Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to."

"All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood."

"Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me."

"Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons."

"Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."

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