A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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