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 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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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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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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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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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