Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEPast 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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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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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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