It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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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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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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