Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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 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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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 believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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