Truman Capote

“His dreams were clear blue”

— Truman Capote

“She ought to be protected against herself.”

— Truman Capote

I'm sure Proust was a big bore.

— Truman Capote

All artists are two-headed calves.

— Truman Capote

I never had a rejection slip in my life.

— Truman Capote

I can see every monster as they come in.

— Truman Capote

I live in Brooklyn. By choice,

— Truman Capote

Let's take everything just as it is.

— Truman Capote

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

— Truman Capote

As Miss Golightly was saying, before she was so rudely interrupted...

— Truman Capote

“Imagination can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.”

— Truman Capote

“They've had the old clap-yo'-hands so many times it amounts to applause.”

— Truman Capote

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

— Truman Capote

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

— Truman Capote

we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.

— Truman Capote

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

— Truman Capote

“And yet, in a touching, shrunken way, she was rather pretty - a prettiness marred by her seeing to be precariously balanced…

— Truman Capote

“One cannot be taught to write. One can only learn to write by writing—and reading. Reading good books written by real artists—until…

— Truman Capote

“It may be that there is no place for any of us. Except we know there is somewhere; and if we found…

— Truman Capote

“In school we only learn to recognize the words and to spell but the application of these words to real life is…

— Truman Capote

“To be an artist today is such an act of faith: nothing can come back from it except the satisfaction of the…

— Truman Capote

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

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

— Truman Capote

“It was like the time he'd failed algebra and felt so relieved, so free: failure was definite, a certainty, and there is…

— Truman Capote

“Ida, dear, please, do I complain? It is right a child should not love the mama the way the mama loves the…

— Truman Capote

“Some of the most vivid writing in America is on the walls of restrooms. The men's room in the Albany, N.Y. railroad…

— Truman Capote

“The instant of petrified violence that sometimes foreruns a summer storm saturated the hushed yard, and in the unearthly tinseled light rusty…

— Truman Capote

“If some wizard would like to give me a present, let him give me a bottle filled with the voices of that…

— Truman Capote

“Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live,…

— Truman Capote

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it…

— Truman Capote

“I have an extremely strong, masculine mind and a feminine sensibility level, which is kind of an unusual combination. Both men and…

— Truman Capote

“What I’ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany’s. It calms me down…

— Truman Capote

“In the country, spring is a time of small happenings happening quietly, hyacinth shoots thrusting in a garden, willows burning with a…

— Truman Capote

“I’ve always thought a body would have to be sick and dying before they saw the Lord. And I imagined that when…

— Truman Capote

“With an exceedingly contemptuous expression, Idabel drew up to her full height. "Son," she said, and spit between her fingers, "what you've…

— Truman Capote

“Annabel played and sang it; she was the oldest of the sisters and the loveliest, though it was a chore to pick…

— Truman Capote

“You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It's a chill, it's nothing';…

— Truman Capote

“You know those days when you've got the means reds?’ ‘Same as the blues?’ ‘No,’ she said slowly. ‘No, the blues are…

— Truman Capote

“What do you think? This ought to be the right kind of place for tough guy like you. Garbage cans. Rats galore.…

— Truman Capote

“I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods. For instance,there is a brownstone in…

— Truman Capote