One 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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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