Truman Capote Quotes

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

The journey is my home.

We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.

Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! Go! Go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go.

A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

I went to Paris, I went to France, I went to England, I went to Ireland. In my mind, I can go wherever I wanted to go. I left death row every day.

The great home of the soul is the open road.

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.

A path is made by walking on it.

It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk along the line as if they were led on a string. The transition from the line to the plane into the two dimensions, when you wander across a field or through a wood, is a splendid liberation to the slaves, like the French Revolution. But in the air you are taken into the full freedom of the three dimensions; after long ages of exile and dreams the homesick heart throws itself into the arms of space.

I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.