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 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
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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