Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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Good writing is rewriting.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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