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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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 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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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