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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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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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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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