Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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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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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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’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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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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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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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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