“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
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Famous Truman Capote Quotes
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
“When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.”
“That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.”
“Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.”
“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”
Source: Conversations with Capote
Source: Conversations with Capote
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”
“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”
Source: Conversations with Capote
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
“It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.”
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
“I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.”
“That's not writing, that's typing”
Source: Conversations with Capote