To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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