A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA boy has to peddle his book.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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