Truman Capote Quotes

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
Truman Capote

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Truman Capote

Friendship, Friendly, Friends

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote

Life, Good, Play

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote

Music, Greatest, Writing

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

Writing, Typing

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

Success, Failure, Flavor

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

True, Care, Long

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
Truman Capote

God, End, Makes

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
Truman Capote

Book, Child, Took

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
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Travel, Chocolate, Eating

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

God, Gift, Hands

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote

Music, Yourself, Writing

All literature is gossip.
Truman Capote

Gossip, Literature

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.
Truman Capote

True, End, Single

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

Writing, Talk, Worth

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

Life, Love, Nature

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
Truman Capote

Down, Blood, Cold

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
Truman Capote

Good, Small, Fame

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

Pencil, Scissors

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

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
Truman Capote

Lovely, Though, Sixteen

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
Truman Capote

Life, Lonely, Regret

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

Good, Book, Sometimes

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

Malice, Reply, Quietness

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

Tall, Noisy, Shotgun

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: September 30, 1924

Died: August 25, 1984

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