Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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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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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 brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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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 work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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