Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe better the actor, the more stupid he is.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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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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