13 Capote Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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If Brando can do Capote and I can do Brando - well then, I can do Capote. John Belushi

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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me. Zadie Smith

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Truman Capote is really an interesting cat. Steve Earle

Cat Truman Truman Capote Interesting Really Capote

'Pumped Up Kicks' is written from the perspective like Truman Capote wrote 'In Cold Blood' or Dostoevsky wrote 'Crime & Punishment.' It's psychologically breaking down someone's state of mind and diving in and walking in their shoes. Mark Foster

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When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall. Lionel Shriver

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I'd always had this romantic idea, ever since I've been writing scripts, that I would travel one day and pull up stumps, as we say in Australia. It's a cricket reference. You can Google it. Pull up stumps in some country like Italy or Spain and do my little Truman Capote thing. Leigh Whannell

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Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipulated and draped fabric was inspiring. I was submerged into the Halston subculture alongside Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Truman Capote. They shaped who I have become as a designer. Naeem Khan

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

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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. Gerald Clarke

People Writing Mind Crime Some People Think Approach Killer Some Never Had He Journalistic Look Make Smith Because Been Did Upset Loved Capote Deep Connection