I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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