Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEImagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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 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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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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.
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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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