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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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....

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were...

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were...

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

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

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.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and,...

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and,...

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.

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...

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

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

That's not writing, that's typing.

That's not writing, that's typing.

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

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

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

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 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.

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...

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...

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find...

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find...

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle...

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle...