The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGood 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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