More quotes by Truman Capote

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
"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."
"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it."
"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."
"You can't blame a writer for what the characters say."