Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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 brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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The 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.
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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