Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEWriting 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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