Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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