Truman Capote
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.Collection: Good
Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.Collection: Love
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.Collection: God
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.Collection: Travel
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Art
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.Collection: Good
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.Collection: Failure
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.Collection: Nature
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.Collection: Communication
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.Collection: Friendship
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
All literature is gossip.
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
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.
I can see every monster as they come in.
No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
The brain may take advice, but not the heart.Collection: Heart
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.Collection: Confidence
All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.Collection: Summer
there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.Collection: Sin
If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?Collection: Wanted
A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.Collection: Dream
I remember things the way they should have been.Collection: Should Have
Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.Collection: Inspirational
It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.Collection: Writing
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.Collection: Long
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.Collection: Law
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.Collection: Envy
You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.Collection: Running
He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.Collection: Love
You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.Collection: Writing
Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.Collection: Life Is
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Morning
Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.Collection: Littles
Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.Collection: Children
I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.Collection: New York
I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.Collection: House
Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.Collection: Inspirational