21 Quotes by Gerald Clarke

That did happen. He may have made a connection with Perry, but Truman was ultimately a writer. A writer trying to get the story.

Before In Cold Blood , Truman was a normal, if ambitious, person,

They were convicted almost immediately in March of 1960, but the appeals lasted 5 years. And it was hard on them, as you can imagine, and hard on Truman.

It was the most dramatic and probably the most important period in his life, and it changed him radically in all sorts of ways,

Before Truman, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. Journalism was seen as a hack profession that had very little style, very little grace. After In Cold Blood , people saw real-life stories in a different way.

He said at the time that the book scraped him down to the marrow of his bones. It changed him.

I don't think there are many Capote letters that I have not seen for my biography and for 'Too Brief a Treat.' But there are undoubtedly some that I have not seen and that I hope will come to light someday.

All human life has its seasons, and no one’s personal chaos can be permanent: winter, after all, does not last forever, does it? There.

People simply will not accept the fact that there is such a thing as a homicidal mind,” he told the Senators, “that there are people who would kill as easily as they would write a bad check, and that they achieve satisfaction from it as I might from completing a novel or you from seeing a proposal of yours become law.” A.