Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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