I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
TRUMAN CAPOTESometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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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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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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