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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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 problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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