583 Quotes by Truman Capote

It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.

I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.

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.

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

That's not writing, that's typing

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.

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.