Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. Truman Capote More Quotes by Truman Capote More Quotes From Truman Capote 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 terrible perfection thinking 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 fluidity writing mean One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling. Truman Capote likes feelings book Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view. Truman Capote views writing giving 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 narrators problem writing I never had a rejection slip in my life. Truman Capote slips rejection I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers. Truman Capote bad-reviews reviews newspapers I'm not a philosopher. Truman Capote philosopher 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 imagination reason writing That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not. Truman Capote writing If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet. Truman Capote stories writing book Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons. Truman Capote guitar weapons prison 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 frogs sides doe When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day. Truman Capote hours four writing I've never been a teacher in my life. Truman Capote teacher 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 semester university want I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person. Truman Capote teacher needs thinking I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners. Truman Capote sharpener pencil-sharpeners world 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. Truman Capote anxiety two next-week I feel that all a writer has is his own experience. Truman Capote feels
