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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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