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
If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically… — 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
I met Lee Harvey Oswald, in Moscow just after he defected. One night I was having dinner with a friend, an Italian… — 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 can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves.… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I guess if you're that thin and that small you don't need to take up too much space or breathe that much… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got… — 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....for me, every… — 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
People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain… — 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
