Truman Capote Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

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  Writing, Character, Fearless

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton

• The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic.

  Truman Capote

  Character, Average, Years

• Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly

  Truman Capote

  Character, Hollies, Tiffany's

• But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those supernatural castles visited by characters in legends: once away, you do not remember, all that is left is the ghostly echo of haunting wonder.

  Truman Capote

  Lying, Character, Echoes

  Truman Capote (2013). “Portraits and Observations”, p.20, Modern Library

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

  Truman Capote

  Book, Character

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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