The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
TRUMAN CAPOTELife is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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 enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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