Truman Capote

You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself.

— Truman Capote

“She's such a goddamn liar maybe she don't know herself anymore.”

— Truman Capote

It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.

— Truman Capote

“which is a venomous lie from start to finish”

— Truman Capote

“You musn't give yur hearth to wild things...”

— Truman Capote

“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liquers at one go.”

— Truman Capote

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

— Truman Capote

“...he called after her as she disappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry...”

— Truman Capote

“The crime was a psychological accident, virtually an impersonal act; the victims might as well have been killed by lightning.”

— Truman Capote

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

— Truman Capote

The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.

— Truman Capote

Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

— Truman Capote

“Aside from all else, there is some truth in that; clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering…

— Truman Capote

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

— Truman Capote

The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a…

— Truman Capote

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

“The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call ‘out there.’…

— Truman Capote

“... crystal spheres imprisoning green lizards, salamanders, millefiori bouquets dragonflies, a basket of pears, butterflies alighted on a frond of fern, swirls…

— Truman Capote

“She was never without dark glasses, she was always well groomed, there was a consequential good taste in the plainness of her…

— Truman Capote

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

“I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. I'm not quite…

— Truman Capote

“I thought Lord of the Flies was one of the great rip-offs of our time. Complete steal from A High Wind In…

— Truman Capote

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

“Both Dietrich and Garbo occasionally came to Boaty's, the latter always escorted by Cecil Beaton, whom I'd met when he photographed me…

— Truman Capote

“He left soon afterwards, leaving her alone in the dark room, illuminated time to time by shocking leaps of heat lightning, and…

— Truman Capote

Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form…

— Truman Capote

“Hickock whistled and rolled his eyes. "Wow!" he said, and then, summoning his talent for something very like total recall, he began…

— Truman Capote

“She was still hugging the cat. "Poor slob," she said, tickling his head, "poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient,…

— Truman Capote

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

— Truman Capote

I remember things the way they should have been.

— Truman Capote

I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.

— Truman Capote

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

— Truman Capote

It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.

— Truman Capote

“What happens to us on earth is lost in the endless shine of eternity.”

— Truman Capote

“If you are not admired no one will take the trouble to disapprove.”

— Truman Capote

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

— Truman Capote

Randolph," he said, "were you ever as young as me?" And Randolph said: "I was never so old.

— Truman Capote

One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.

— Truman Capote

“She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise she was perfect.”

— Truman Capote

I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.

— Truman Capote