Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.” — 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
When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and… — 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
“My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and writing, in that order.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling… — 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
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
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors. — 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
There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not. — 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 like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about. — 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
