I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYou can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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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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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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