A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
TRUMAN CAPOTEPersonally, 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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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.
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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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