It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
TRUMAN CAPOTEOne 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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