Blame Quote by Truman Capote Download Open image “You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.” — Truman Capote ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blame Character Fearless Writing
I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do. — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.” — Anna-Cosette Copy Share Image
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm… — Alan Rickman 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
“Because it's indeed difficult to portray, in any meaningful depth, another being, his appearance, speech, mentality, without to some degree, and often for quite… — truman capote Copy Share Image
Me mum used to always have the radio on - even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your ability to… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
We know from this book entitled... What is it? Surrendered? Succumbed? I can never remember the title perform. And we learn from this book… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I don't blame anyone .. I did this to myself .. It's my fault .. Everything is my FAULT ... — Nurnizz95 Copy Share Image
I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
How come you don't feel that magic in the air? I guess I knew you'll never be there. I guess I knew you never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am down mentally. I can't understand how it happened and who is to blame? I don't know why the ground was rolled before… — Yeasin Khan Copy Share Image
Listen, the guy was not created by coverage from MSNBC and CNN. If you want to blame us for making Donald Trump president because… — Katy Tur Copy Share Image
Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
