A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
TRUMAN CAPOTEFinishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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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 remember things the way they should have been.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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