Quote #11

'I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.'

More from Truman Capote

  1. 'The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection'
  2. 'Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.'
  3. 'More tears are shed for answered prayers than for unanswered ones.' (The dedication in his last, unfinished work)
  4. 'I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that is why I started to write…
  5. About Jack Kerouac: 'That's not writing; That's typing.'
  6. 'Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.'
  7. 'Good taste is the death of art.'
  8. 'All literature is gossip.'

All Truman Capote quotes