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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEReally being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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 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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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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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 may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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