A boy has to peddle his book.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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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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