black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Truman Capote

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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Darkness Gold Morning Nature Rise Sky Sun
It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Choice Myself Natural Normal Ordinary
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Difficult Myself Novel View Writing
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Conversation Goodness Intelligence Scarcity Talk
It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Better Deep Live Sky
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Famous Friendship Lose Night People Practice Reason Stand Yourself
I remember things the way they should have been.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Imagination Myself Remember Way
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Believe Funny Myself Scissor
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 CAPOTE

Destroy Identity Mirror Reaasuarnce Romantic Secret Torture
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Concentration Focus World Yourself
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Bad Difference Fun Goodness Myself Stop True Writing
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Actor Better Himself Stupidity
It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Funny Intelligence Lose Science Stay Yourself
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Believe Death Deep End God
How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Appearance Make Up Myself Night Quite Simplicity Young
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Art Artist Myself Mystery

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Truman Capote Quotes