A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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