I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGreat fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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