To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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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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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’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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