And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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Writing 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.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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