Good writing is rewriting.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
More Truman Capote Quotes
-
-
Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
I remember things the way they should have been.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
TRUMAN CAPOTE -
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
TRUMAN CAPOTE