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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEEverybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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