Truman Capote Quotes (88 Quotes)

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a flamingo.

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

I can see every monster as they come in.

He Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

When I think of how good my book can be, it scares me.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

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.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the par

I didnt want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California, you lose one point of IQ every year.

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

That's not writing, that's typing.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.

The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through,

All literature is gossip.

Talent is a valued tormentor.

People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You c

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