Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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