It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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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 brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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