It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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