I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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 better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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.
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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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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.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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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.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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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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