Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
Truman Capote
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Hours
Write
Writing
Never
Four
More quotes by Truman Capote
Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.
Truman Capote
I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
Truman Capote
Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder it is best done when one is a child after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
Truman Capote
I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.
Truman Capote
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
Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.
Truman Capote
Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.
Truman Capote
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
Truman Capote
Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
Truman Capote
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
Truman Capote
Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.
Truman Capote
I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
Truman Capote
It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
Truman Capote
I know the next best thing is often the very best.
Truman Capote
That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.
Truman Capote
Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.
Truman Capote
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
Truman Capote
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
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.
Truman Capote
