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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThey 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?
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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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.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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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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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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 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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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