Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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 prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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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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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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