Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
TRUMAN CAPOTEI 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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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 just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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