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 CAPOTEIn my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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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.
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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, 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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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