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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote. -- Joseph Epstein
Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer. -- Lisa Unger
Truman Capote is really an interesting cat. -- Steve Earle
Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art. -- Gore Vidal
Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. -- Gerald Clarke
My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson. -- Dylan Penn
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. -- Kiran Desai
[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. -- Alvin Ailey
Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it. -- Debbie Harry
Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house. -- Gore Vidal
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
I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu. -- Toby Jones
Look at Picasso. O'Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work. -- Marisha Pessl
It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation. -- Tavis Smiley
I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much. -- Chris Pratt
I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share. I was very close and almost cast in Philip Seymour Hoffman's 'Capote.' -- Michael Eklund
People like to re-invent you, according to clichÃ©. There are a lot of stores about me that really apply only to Capote or Mailer or somebody else. Everything is a mish mash. -- Gore Vidal
[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon. -- Gore Vidal
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. -- James Wolcott
Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces. -- Jon Stewart
I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the only place open all night. Truman Capote in the frozen foods. Andy Warhol over in vegetables. -- James St. James
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
I really, really like writing songs. Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it...Something that's written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means. -- Debbie Harry
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth. -- Joshua Foer
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. -- Mary McCarthy
There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things that come up, that come up in the story of Capote writing "In Cold Blood," and when you see the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading like a cross between Samuel Beckett's 'The Calmative' and Gordon Lish's Dear Mr. Capote, Robert Lopez's new novel gets under your skin and latches on. -- Brian Evenson
Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote. -- Truman Capote
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly -- Truman Capote
To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote -- Truman Capote
I started to work at the Colony in March 1958. I remember my first day because the telephone started to ring, and it was Sinatra, three for lunch, his usual table; Onassis, two for lunch, usual table; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Leland Hayward, Truman Capote, all wanting their usual tables. -- Sirio Maccioni
Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they recognized in each other "an apartness," as Capote later expressed it; and both loved reading. When Lee's father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories together. -- Charles J. Shields
I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain. -- Toby Jones

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