Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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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.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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