I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.

If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.

The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. "Darling," she instructed me, "would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

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.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly