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

Quote by Truman Capote

Topics: Ideas Quotes, Words Quotes, Work Quotes

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

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

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.

All literature is gossip.

All literature is gossip.

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

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...

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

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

It isn't writing at all - it's typing

It isn't writing at all - it's typing

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I...

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I...

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible;...

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible;...