Truman Capote

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

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour."

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

"Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries."

"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."

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

"Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down."

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

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

"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."

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

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