Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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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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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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