There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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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Good writing is rewriting.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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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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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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