Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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 can see every monster as they come in.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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