Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.

In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial…

— Stephen King

In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading…

— Brian Evenson

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

— Joseph Epstein

“Capote's rejoinder to the Kerouac assertion that he never needed to edit his writing: "That's not writing .That's typing.”

— Joseph Cavano

“There's the one and only T.C. There was nobody like me before, and there ain't gonna be anybody like me after I'm gone...”

— Truman Capote

I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe…

— Teddy Thompson

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that…

— James Wolcott

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

— Truman Capote

[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you think about [Truman] Capote in the - was what he did exploitative of a person's life or exploitative of these murders? You…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

If Brando can do Capote and I can do Brando - well then, I can do Capote.

— John Belushi

Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless…

— Jon Stewart

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV…

— James Wolcott

“The trouble with all these far-right and far-left mentalities is that they can encompass only one side of an argument and are congenitally incapable…

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.

— Gore Vidal