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

Quote by Truman Capote

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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...

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...

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...

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's not writing, that's typing.

That's not writing, that's typing.

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...

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...

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...

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

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.

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...

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.

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 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...

It's a scientific fact. For every year a person lives in Hollywood, they lose two...

It's a scientific fact. For every year a person lives in Hollywood, they lose two...

If all the atoms in the universe were transformed into breasts, there would still not...

If all the atoms in the universe were transformed into breasts, there would still not...

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.