I can see every monster as they come in.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI can see every monster as they come in.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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