We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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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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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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