It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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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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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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