It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year

Quote by Truman Capote

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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...

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...

When I think about how good my book could be, I can hardly breathe.

When I think about how good my book could be, I can hardly breathe.

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...

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

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.

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped...

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped...

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a...

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a...

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...

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or...

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or...

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

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

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner...

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner...

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

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

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

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...

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....

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.