One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe better the actor, the more stupid he is.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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