Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIf 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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 good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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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.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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