Latest Truman Capote Quotes from Interviews

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• I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.

  Truman Capote

  Reviews, Newspapers, Bad Reviews

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm scarcely an enfant!

  Truman Capote

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I never had a rejection slip in my life.

  Truman Capote

  Rejection, Slips

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Narrators, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Views, Point Of View

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Views, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

  Truman Capote

  Mean, Writing, Fluidity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.

  Truman Capote

  Book, Feelings, Likes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

  Truman Capote

  Thinking, Perfection, Terrible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!

  Truman Capote

  Thinking, Illness, Perfectionist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm not a character in any of my books.

  Truman Capote

  Book, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm not a philosopher.

  Truman Capote

  Philosopher

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Imagination, Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

  Truman Capote

  Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

  Truman Capote

  Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.

  Truman Capote

  World, Pencil Sharpeners, Sharpener

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

  Truman Capote

  Two, Style, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Two, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

  Truman Capote

  Teacher, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

  Truman Capote

  Want, University, Semester

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I've never been a teacher in my life.

  Truman Capote

  Teacher

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Four, Hours

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you; on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: "Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger." A voodoo amulet, so to say.

  Truman Capote

  Doe, Frogs, Sides

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

• Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

  Truman Capote

  Guitar, Weapons, Prison

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

• If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?

  Truman Capote

  Wanted, Ifs

  Source: capote.wordpress.com