All Truman Capote Quotes
- The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday,… All
- The brain may take advice, but not the heart. Advice
- It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing. Bad
- Good writing is rewriting. Good
- I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't… Best
- All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like… Act
- I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch. Author
- I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go back… Always Nice
- I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon. Comma
- I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years. Came
- A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology. Arithmetic
- When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may… Control
- I live in Brooklyn. By choice, Brooklyn
- Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that,… Across
- Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent. Beyond
- Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a… American
- That isn't writing at all, it's typing. All
- My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. Childhood
- Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. Giggle
- The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning. Any
- Work is the only device I know of. Device
- People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because… Add
- What I do requires fantastic concentration... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and… All
- It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something Believe
- New York is the only real city-city. Cities