Quotes By Author: truman capote

“I know it’s become fashionable to depict the police as sadistic Cossacks riding down innocent citizens, but I’ve become well enough acquainted with law-enforcement agencies across the country to know that’s just not the case. Of course, a certain small percentage of policemen are irresponsible…but that doesn’t justify the current unjust barrage of propaganda against a tribe of men who are hard-working, underpaid and daily risking their lives to protect us. I’m sure there are isolated instances of police brutality, but the rising crime rate and urban violence constitute a far, far more pressing problem.”

“If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.”

“That isn’t writing at all, it’s typing.”

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.”

“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”

“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”

“You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.”

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

“all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.”

“Well, I’m about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.”

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