Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
TRUMAN CAPOTETo me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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 brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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