Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
TRUMAN CAPOTEHave you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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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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