I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGood writing is rewriting.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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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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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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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 quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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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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