You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTESometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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