Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
TRUMAN CAPOTEReally being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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 is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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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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