Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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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 most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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 quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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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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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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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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