It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
TRUMAN CAPOTEOne 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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