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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEWriting 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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