Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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