Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
TRUMAN CAPOTEWriting 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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