Quote

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

Truman Capote

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
Actor
Artist
Author
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Truman Streckfus Persons
Truman Garcia Capote
Animal
Gone
Come
July
Like
June
Winter
Warm
Spring
Months

More quotes by Truman Capote

Image
Talent is a valued tormentor.
Truman Capote
Image
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
Truman Capote
Image
I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
Truman Capote
Image
One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.
Truman Capote
Image
But mostly they were lies I told it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those supernatural castles visited by characters in legends: once away, you do not remember, all that is left is the ghostly echo of haunting wonder.
Truman Capote
Image
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
Image
Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.
Truman Capote
Image
The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
Truman Capote
Image
Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
Truman Capote
Image
It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
Truman Capote
Image
I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.
Truman Capote
Image
I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.
Truman Capote
Image
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
Truman Capote
Image
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
Truman Capote
Image
It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the holding cells.
Truman Capote
Image
Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
Truman Capote
Image
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
Truman Capote
Image
Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.
Truman Capote
Image
When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.
Truman Capote
Image
Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.
Truman Capote