Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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