Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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