Quotes Truman Capote

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why th...

All literature is gossip....

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor....

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check ...

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the ba...

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really ar...

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil....

I can see every monster as they come in....

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't ...

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would ...

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

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my w...

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God,...

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third ac...

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life....

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad....

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessari...

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. I...

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly...

That isn't writing at all, it's typing....

That's not writing, that's typing....

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply...

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's abo...

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in...

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy....