Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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 brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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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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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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