Truman Capote Quotes

I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.