I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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