More quotes by Truman Capote

"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."
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it."
"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."