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Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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More quotes by Truman Capote
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
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
Truman Capote
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
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
There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.
Truman Capote
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
Truman Capote
You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
Truman Capote
One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.
Truman Capote
The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
Truman Capote
Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.
Truman Capote
I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.
Truman Capote
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.
Truman Capote
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
Truman Capote
That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.
Truman Capote
That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
Truman Capote
If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls.
Truman Capote
I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
Truman Capote
I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.
Truman Capote
Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.
Truman Capote
But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.
Truman Capote
