A boy has to peddle his book.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAre the dead as lonesome as the living?
More Truman Capote Quotes
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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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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