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

Quote by Truman Capote

Topics: Writing Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...

All literature is gossip.

All literature is gossip.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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 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 can see every monster as they come in.

I can see every monster as they come in.

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

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

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.

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...