Truman Capote Quotes

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so there's always pressure. What else can you come up with?

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.

The best ideas are those that really affect me emotionally - those are the ones you never forget. You think to yourself, 'I want to write that book', for years; those are the ideas that I love to work with, and 'The Bone Garden' was one of them.

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

I might be into writing... I'd like to try it someday. I always come up with some good ideas.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.