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?
TRUMAN CAPOTETo me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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