Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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 boy has to peddle his book.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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