“Capote's rejoinder to Kerouac's assertion that he never needed to edit his work....."But, that's not writing . That's typing.”
“That isn't writing at all, it's typing.”
“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.”
“That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.”
“That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.”
“Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.”