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 CAPOTEA boy has to peddle his book.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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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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