And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIn my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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