Quotes from Truman Capote

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.

Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.

It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.

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.

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.

I've never been a teacher in my life.

Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.

I never had a rejection slip in my life.

All literature is gossip.

Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.

I used to spend all of my time projecting. I was never in the moment. It was always tomorrow or next week or two months from now. That was one of the reasons I always had this sense of anxiety.

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

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.

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.

Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.