50 Capote Quotes

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Famous Capote Quotes

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. — William Gibson

To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black. — Dylan Thomas

After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy. — Denis Johnson

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love. — Octavio Paz

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. — Vladimir Nabokov

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others. — Milan Kundera

Such is Life [Executed by hanging.] — Ned Kelly

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king. — Stephen King

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block. — W. S. Gilbert

Drink and frankfurters for a dime; kill a man before his time. — American Proverbs

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. — George Orwell

It was a dark and stormy night. - Snoopy - Charles M. Schulz

It was a dark and stormy night. - Snoopy — Charles M. Schulz

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? — Stendhal

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. - Lucy Maud Montgomery

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Short Capote Quotes

  • I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. — Kiran Desai
  • Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it. — Debbie Harry
  • I am the heterosexual Truman Capote. — Joseph Epstein
  • Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art. — Gore Vidal
  • [Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person. — Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote. — Truman Capote

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More Capote Quotes

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. — Alvin Ailey

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

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. — Rich Little

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. — Mary McCarthy

Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces. — Jon Stewart

I really, really like writing songs. Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it...Something that's written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means. — Debbie Harry

I read Carver. Julio Cortázar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me. — Zadie Smith

In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading like a cross between Samuel Beckett's 'The Calmative' and Gordon Lish's Dear Mr. Capote, Robert Lopez's new novel gets under your skin and latches on. — Brian Evenson

I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer. — Gerald Clarke

My advice to young writers would be to write every day, even if it is only a few words. Get yourself on the habit of writing and it will become a lifelong one. And find a place to write where you are physically comfortable. You can't concentrate if you aren't. Ernest Hemingway could only write standing up, and Truman Capote could only write lying down! — Cassandra Clare

[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon. — Gore Vidal

People like to re-invent you, according to cliché. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote or Mailer or somebody else. Everything is a mish mash. — Gore Vidal

With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

When you think about [Truman] Capote in the - was what he did exploitative of a person's life or exploitative of these murders? You look at our culture now, you look at celebrity and how it plays out in our culture now, and Capote was one of the great PR men of his time. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation. — Tavis Smiley

When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things that come up, that come up in the story of Capote writing "In Cold Blood," and when you see the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe and that's where I started. It doesn't make any sense because he was gay, but it was just the idea of the short guy and the beautiful blonde out of his league. That's where I started, but very quickly it became about me. — Teddy Thompson

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu. — Toby Jones

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house. — Gore Vidal

Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work. — Marisha Pessl

To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote — Truman Capote

I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much. — Chris Pratt

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