I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

Quote by Truman Capote

Topics: Truman Capote Quotes

All literature is gossip.

All literature is gossip.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like...

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like...

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

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

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

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

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

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't...

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't...

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good...

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good...

That's not writing, that's typing.

That's not writing, that's typing.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music....

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music....

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like...

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like...

I can see every monster as they come in.

I can see every monster as they come in.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good...

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good...

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system...

Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system...

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of...

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of...

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas....

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas....

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged...

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged...

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for...

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for...