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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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