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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYou can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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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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