Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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