Truman Capote Quotes & Sayings

27 most famous Truman Capote quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American novelist who passed away on 25 August, 1984.

“Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.”

“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.”

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.”

“Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.”

“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.”

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

“I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.”

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

“Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.”