Truman Capote Quotes: 15

• 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.

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

• Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

• 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.

• Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

• He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....

  Summer Crossing

• You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

  Breakfast at Tiffany's

• You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

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

  Truman Capote: Conversations

• Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

• Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.

  Summer Crossing

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

• I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

  Breakfast at Tiffany's

• all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.

• Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.