Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
But I know what I like.' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to… — 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… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only… — 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
