583 Quotes by Truman Capote

When he was in the army he'd picked up a great many girls: sometimes nothing happened except a lot of talk, and that was all right too: because it didn't matter what you said to them, for in those transient moments lies or truth were arbitrary and you were whatever you wanted to be.

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.