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.
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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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