Truman Capote Quotes

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.
James Wolcott

Everyone, Off, Show

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
Alvin Ailey

Sad, Sensitive, Impression

Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.
Joshua Foer

Whole, Used, Memory

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
Joseph Epstein

I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe and that's where I started. It doesn't make any sense because he was gay, but it was just the idea of the short guy and the beautiful blonde out of his league. That's where I started, but very quickly it became about me.
Teddy Thompson

Beautiful, Gay, Writing

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.
Rich Little

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
Gerald Clarke

Before, Seriously, Taken

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