Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
TRUMAN CAPOTEWe all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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 is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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