In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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They 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?
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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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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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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