Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI remember things the way they should have been.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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