It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYou can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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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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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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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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