Good writing is rewriting.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI can see every monster as they come in.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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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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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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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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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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