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.
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 don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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I 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.
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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 prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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