Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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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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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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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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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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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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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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