The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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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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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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