A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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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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