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: Writing Quotes

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...

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...

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

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.

I can see every monster as they come in.

I can see every monster as they come in.

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged...

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged...

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

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

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...

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...

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip...

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip...

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...

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....

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...

All literature is gossip.

All literature is gossip.