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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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