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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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