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 CAPOTEI don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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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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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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