"Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken……" — Gerald Clarke

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• I really, really like writing songs. Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit… — Debbie Harry
• Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it. — Debbie Harry
• Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into… — Gore Vidal
• I am the heterosexual Truman Capote. — Joseph Epstein
• Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying… — Jon Stewart
• Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. — Rich Little
• I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. — Kiran Desai
• I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years.… — Toby Jones
• My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. — Alvin Ailey
• Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never… — Joshua Foer
• I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my… — Chris Pratt
• I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't… — Zadie Smith

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