They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
TRUMAN CAPOTEHome is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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