Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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