Truman Capote Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Keys, Doors

  Truman Capote (2001). “In Cold Blood”, p.92, Vintage

• Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.

  Truman Capote

  Reading, Two, Orange

• If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Imagination, Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.

  Truman Capote

  Notebook, Ideas, Imagination

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.30, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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