Truman Capote Quotes

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have...

It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not ...

It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of livi...

Somewhere in this world there exists an exceptional philosopher named Florie Rotondo.The other day I...

Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures of the sky.

Watching her, I remembered a girl I'd known in school, a grind, Mildred Grossman. Mildred: with her ...

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

So if black power means black armies racing through the streets, creating havoc, that certainly does...

Kay yawned and rested her forehead against the windowpane, her fingers idly strumming the guitar: th...

You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It...

If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future?

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizz...

Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very ...

The blame of course belonged to Clyde, who just was not much given to talk. Also, he seemed very lit...

When he was in the army he'd picked up a great many girls: sometimes nothing happened except a lot o...

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.

I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist… he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable ...

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a m...

Of course there is a Santa Claus. It’s just that no single somebody could do all he has to do. So th...

Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcom...

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. So...

Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.

But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman—you are as an animal—'an...

Her bedroom window overlooked the garden, and now and then, usually when she was "having a bad spell...

The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.

...he called after her as shedisappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry...

Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you li...

Sorrow and profound fatigue are at the heart of Dewey's silence. It had been his ambition to learn "...

Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streakin...

Duntz asked Smith, 'Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?' 'Between forty and fifty...

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

Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like do...

It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up some...

Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame...

The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be ...

I have an extremely strong, masculine mind and a feminine sensibility level, which is kind of an unu...

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

all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with ...

That's not writing that's typing.

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

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

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a hou...

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even mo...

The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete over...

She was never without dark glasses, she was always well groomed, there was a consequential good tast...

A kind of silence, if I may say, was walking through the house, and, like most silence, it was not s...

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

What are your chief vices? And virtues? I have no vices. The concept doesn't exist in my vocabulary....

What I am trying to achieve is a voice sitting by a fireplace telling you a story on a winter’s even...

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

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

I think the argument that no whites are free of racism is quite erroneous. But then, on another leve...

I've always seen myself as a winner even as a kid. If I hadn't I just might have gone down the dra...

Because it's indeed difficult to portray, in any meaningful depth, another being, his appearance, sp...

In California everyone goes to a therapist is a therapist or is a therapist going to a therapist.

I only object when any one particular group...gets a stranglehold on American criticism and squeezes...

Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism he...

You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.

But if Miss Golightly remained unconscious of my existence, except as a doorbell convenience, I beca...

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a frien...

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may c...

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete ove...

Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.

It was as if I were an oyster and somebody forced a grain of sand into my shell -- a grain of sand t...

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

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep...

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always luggin...

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

I know it's become fashionable to depict the police as sadistic Cossacks riding down innocent citize...

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

The only rich women who ever interested me, the ones who were ever my friends, were adventuresses---...

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

Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' an...

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no...

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

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born...

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn...

The trouble with all these far-right and far-left mentalities is that they can encompass only one si...

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due t...

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . ....

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.