A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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?
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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