Truman Capote Quotes

The better the actor the more stupid he is.

The morals of a baboon and the guts of a butterfly.

The chic old blue-haired ladies…chew in mute chandeliered isolation.

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad, and then made an even more terrifying discovery—the difference between very good writing and true art: it is subtle, but savage.

I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.

Buddy, it’s fruitcake weather!

Even an attorney of modest talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants  play interminably.

None of these people have anything interesting to say, and none of them can write, not even Mr Kerouac. What they do isn’t writing at all—it’s typing.

Other Voices, Other Rooms.