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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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