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
I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine.… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying… — 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
