To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of 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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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 enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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