I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnd in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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 can see every monster as they come in.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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 good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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