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 think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger. — 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
Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a… — 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
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
I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than… — 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
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. — 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
I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Lee Harvey Oswald was boiling over about everything: the American ambassador; the Russians-he was mad at them because they wouldn't let him… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody… — 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
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