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

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

"The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it."

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."
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"The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply."

"Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go."

"Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Adorned with cape, with tricorn, saintly soul singing in librarian tones an enameled song that coolly celebrates her chewing-gum enthusiasms."

"That's not writing, that's typing."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town."

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