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Truman Capote - From the Anticipation category:
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe. (Truman Capote)
Truman Capote - From the Artists category:
All artists are two-headed calves. (Truman Capote)
Truman Capote - From the Belief category:
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something. (Truman Capote)
Truman Capote - From the Criticism category:
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. (Truman Capote)
Truman Capote - From the Editing category:
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. (Truman Capote)
Truman Capote - From the Exhaustion category:
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. (Truman Capote)
Truman Capote - From the Failure category:
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. (Truman Capote)
Truman Capote - From the Finishing category:
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. (Truman Capote)
Truman Capote - From the Friendship category:
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. (Truman Capote)
Truman Capote - From the Fun category:
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. (Truman Capote)
Truman Capote - From the Life category:
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. (Truman Capote)
Truman Capote - From the Loneliness category:
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. (Truman Capote)
Truman Capote - From the Love category:
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. (Truman Capote)
Truman Capote - From the Passion category:
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. (Truman Capote)
Truman Capote - From the Repose category:
I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched out on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. (Truman Capote)
Truman Capote - From the Writing category:
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. (Truman Capote)
Truman Capote - From the Writing category:
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. (Truman Capote)
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