Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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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 may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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