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Truman Capote [1924-1984] American

Rank: 101
Novelist

Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime novel In Cold Blood, which he labeled a "nonfiction novel".

God, Good, Music, Art, Communication, Failure, Friendship, Life, Love, Nature, Success, Travel

Quote	Tags	Rank
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.	Art, Good	101
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.		102
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.		103
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.	Good, Life	104
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.		105
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.	Music	106
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.	God	107
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.	Nature	108
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.		109
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.	God	110
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.	Failure, Success	111
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.	Travel	112
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.		113
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.		114
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.	Music	115
All literature is gossip.		116
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.	Communication	117
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.	Friendship	118
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.		119
Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.	Love	120
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.		121
That isn't writing at all, it's typing.		122
No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.		123
I can see every monster as they come in.		124
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.		125
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.		126
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.		201

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