I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYou can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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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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I can see every monster as they come 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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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