black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Truman Capote

Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Feeling Home Myself
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Advice Boundary Brain Heart Love Rise Surface Weight
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Beginning Book End Myself Theory Writing
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Life Paper Pieces Reach Tired
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Blame Character Talk Writing
The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Leaving Remember Talk Voice Wind
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Friendship Important Myself Relationship Thinking
I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Care Myself Opinion True
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 CAPOTE

Darkness Gold Morning Nature Rise Sky Sun
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Book Children Shoot Yourself
It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Better Deep Live Sky
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Age Children Difficult Luck Past Wisdom Yourself
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Greatness Happiness Music Myself Word Writing
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 CAPOTE

Appearance Make Up Myself Night Quite Simplicity Young
The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Appearance Clothes Funny Goodness Sex Yourself
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.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

Concentration Focus World Yourself

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Truman Capote Quotes