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Truman Capote

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

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

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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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