You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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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 can see every monster as they come in.
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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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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.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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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.
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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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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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