I remember things the way they should have been.
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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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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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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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