To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
TRUMAN CAPOTEReally being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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