"Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote."

-- Truman Capote

#Truman Quotes #Scene Quotes

“Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.”
“I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write because that tends to be a little forced. Sometimes the funniest ideas just happen in the moment, when you're talking to people, or you notice something.”
“Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.”
“The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.”
“This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.”

Source : F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, Harriman House Limited
“I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.”
“Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.”
“I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.”

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