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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEFinishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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