How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
TRUMAN CAPOTELife is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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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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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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