Quote

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

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
Wells
Valued
Well
Pearls
Writing
Shifting
Mind
Grain
Like
Sand
Genius
Talent
Tormentor
Creative
Pearl

More quotes by Truman Capote

Image
I know the next best thing is often the very best.
Truman Capote
Image
Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
Truman Capote
Image
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
Truman Capote
Image
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
Truman Capote
Image
There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.
Truman Capote
Image
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Truman Capote
Image
First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.
Truman Capote
Image
I despise people who can't control themselves.
Truman Capote
Image
I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
Truman Capote
Image
That's not writing, that's typing
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
The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.
Truman Capote
Image
There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you some­thing else almost as curious.
Truman Capote
Image
I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
Truman Capote
Image
all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.
Truman Capote
Image
It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.
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
Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.
Truman Capote
Image
Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
Truman Capote
Image
Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
Truman Capote