I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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