Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe. — 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
“Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“It was a tricky quality that suggested, well, magic and things read in books,” — 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
“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
“I’m glad you are feeling more deeply drawn into your book; as for your not being sure now what it is about,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least… — 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
“But if Miss Golightly remained unconscious of my existence, except as a doorbell convenience, I became, through the summer, rather an authority… — 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
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. — 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 got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every… — 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
“You can beat your brains out for her, and she’ll hand you horseshit on a platter.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.” — 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 with one's… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“...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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
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 Image
“…she, glittery voyager of secure destination, steamed down the harbor with whistles whistling and confetti in the air.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
