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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Friendship 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.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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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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Good 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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