There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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 believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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