When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism helps. But after something is published, all… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . .… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning…Then… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Some of the most vivid writing in America is on the walls of restrooms. The men's room in the Albany, N.Y. railroad… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“It was as if I were an oyster and somebody forced a grain of sand into my shell -- a grain of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson…" "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and writing, in that order.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“One cannot be taught to write. One can only learn to write by writing—and reading. Reading good books written by real artists—until… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“You can beat your brains out for her, and she’ll hand you horseshit on a platter.” — Truman Capote Copy Share
“The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.” — Truman Capote Copy Share
There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working with one's… — Truman Capote Copy Share
“...Narcissus was so egotist...he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only… — Truman Capote Copy Share
“Is it - I'm not certain - possible to love someone if your first interest is the use you can make of him? Doesn't… — Truman Capote Copy Share
One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's… — Truman Capote Copy Share
I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers. — Truman Capote Copy Share
But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we… — Truman Capote Copy Share
“…she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air.” — Truman Capote Copy Share
“Because it's indeed difficult to portray, in any meaningful depth, another being, his appearance, speech, mentality, without to some degree, and often for quite… — truman capote Copy Share
“It's a bore, but the answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean. Not… — Truman Capote Copy Share
“In the courtyard there was an angel of black stone, and its angel head rose above giant elephant leaves; the stark glass angel eyes,… — Truman Capote Copy Share
