The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
TRUMAN CAPOTEMost secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGood writing is rewriting.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGreat fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIn my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
TRUMAN CAPOTEOne 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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEReally being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
TRUMAN CAPOTEHome is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEReading 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 CAPOTEThere is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
TRUMAN CAPOTEFriendship 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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEHave you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
TRUMAN CAPOTEWriting 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.
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.
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