A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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