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 CAPOTEWe all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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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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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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The 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.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of 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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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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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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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