Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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