Quote #8

About Jack Kerouac: 'That's not writing; That's typing.'

More from Truman Capote

  1. 'Good taste is the death of art.'
  2. 'More tears are shed for answered prayers than for unanswered ones.' (The dedication in his last, unfinished work)
  3. 'As everyone knows, a fag is a homosexual gentleman who has just left the room.'
  4. 'The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection'
  5. 'The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it.'
  6. 'I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.'
  7. 'In California, you lose a point off your IQ every year.'
  8. 'Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.'

All Truman Capote quotes