Truman Capote Quotes

I can see every monster as they come in.

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.

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

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

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

Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; they're enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a flamingo.

That's not writing, that's typing. remark in a television discussion

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