To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’s better to look at the sky than live there.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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 prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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