How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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