Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
TRUMAN CAPOTEReading 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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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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There 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.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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