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 CAPOTEYou can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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