Truman Capote Quotes

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

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

The greatest pleasure of writing is not in the destination, but in the journey.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Sometimes you have to create your own closure.

I’m an alcoholic. I’m a drug addict. I’m homosexual. I’m a genius.

There are no small parts, only small actors.

The difference between hearing and listening is intent.

I do not drink to forget. I drink to remember.

I’m the most misunderstood person in the world.

You can’t force someone to love you, but you can ruin their life for not loving you back.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

I’m a writer. I’m not good at math.

Gossip is the treadmill of the mind. It keeps you running but takes you nowhere.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’

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

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

The road to success is always under construction.

I think it’s a mistake to treat tragedy and comedy as separate genres. Life doesn’t work that way.

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the delete button.

You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

Reality is the strangest invention ever made.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

I’m an addict. There, I said it.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what’s on your mind.

Writing is not a job or a hobby, it’s a way of life.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

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

Memory is a tricky thing. It can be manipulated, distorted, and altered to fit our own narrative.

Writing is both a gift and a curse. It grants you immortality, but also isolates you from the world.

I’m not interested in writing stories that have happy endings. Life rarely gives us that luxury.

Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it does buy a lot of other things that make life more comfortable.

Life is a series of calculated risks. It’s up to us to determine which ones are worth taking.

If you can’t be honest with yourself, how can you be honest with anyone else?

The best lessons in life are often the hardest earned.

True love is finding someone whose demons play well with yours.

Writing is an act of rebellion against the mediocrity of everyday life.

You can’t change the past, but you can certainly learn from it.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Ambition is the fuel that drives us to achieve greatness.

The key to happiness is not in what you have, but in what you make of what you have.

Sometimes you need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who you are and where you want to be.

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Life is short. Seize the day and make it count.

Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.

Forget the critics. Write for yourself and the audience will come.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.