It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI remember things the way they should have been.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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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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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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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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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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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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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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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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