Capote Quotes

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.