I can see every monster as they come in.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYou can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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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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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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 man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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