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 CAPOTEAnticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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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.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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