Truman Capote Quotes About Writing

• Para mí, el mayor placer de escribir no es de qué se trata, sino la música interior que hacen las palabras.

  Truman Capote

  Música, escritura, creatividad

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). "Truman Capote: Conversations", p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• La escritura tiene leyes de perspectiva, de luz y sombra, igual que la pintura o la música. Si naces conociéndolas, bien. Si no, apréndelas. Luego reordena las reglas para adaptarlas a ti.

  Truman Capote

  Music, Writing, Law

  1974 Interview in Paris Review, Summer.

• 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.

  Truman Capote

  Arte, Diversión, Escritura

• No se puede culpar a un escritor por lo que dicen los personajes.

  Truman Capote

  Escritura, Carácter, Intrépido

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). "Conversaciones con Capote", E P Dutton

• Creo más en las tijeras que en el lápiz.

  Truman Capote

  Believe, Writing, Editing

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1986). "Conversaciones con Capote", Plume

• Escribir bien es reescribir.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Rewriting, Good Writing

• Toda escritura, todo arte, es un acto de fe. Si uno trata de contribuir a la comprensión humana, ¿cómo puede calificarse de decadente? Es como decir que una declaración de amor es un acto de decadencia. Toda obra de arte, siempre que surja de una motivación sincera para favorecer el entendimiento entre las personas, es un acto de fe y, por tanto, es un acto de amor.

  Truman Capote

  Arte, Motivación, Primavera

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). "Truman Capote: Conversations", p.19, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Tvs

• Terminar un libro es como sacar a un niño al patio trasero y dispararle.

  Truman Capote

  Niños, Libro, Escritura

• When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Insightful, Training

  " Truman Capote's previously unknown boyhood tales published" by Philip Oltermann, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2014.

• That's not writing, that's typing

  Truman Capote

  Art, Writing, Entertainment

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). "Conversaciones con Capote", E P Dutton

• I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

  Truman Capote

  Lying, Writing, Thinking

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.28, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Typing

  Quoted in New Republic, 9 Feb. 1959

• Siempre sentí que nadie iba a entenderme, a comprender lo que sentía por las cosas. Supongo que por eso empecé a escribir. Al menos sobre el papel podía plasmar lo que pensaba.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Paper, Understand Me

• There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Discovery, Self

  "Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote".

• I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Thinking, Miserable

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.43, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Es una vida insoportable enfrentarse todos los días a ese papel en blanco y tener que llegar hasta algún lugar de las nubes y bajar algo de ellas.

  Truman Capote

  Escritura, Nubes, Piezas

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1986). "Conversaciones con Capote", Plume

• I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

  Truman Capote

  Fake People, Writing, Reality

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Thinking, Weight

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.28, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• No uso máquina de escribir, escribo a mano, con lápiz. Esencialmente soy un escritor horizontal. Pienso mejor cuando estoy tumbado.

  Truman Capote

  Lying, Writing, Thinking

• If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Imagination, Reason

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.

  Truman Capote

  Escritura, Oscuridad, Yo

• Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

  Truman Capote

  Mean, Writing, Fluidity

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Littles, Bad Writing

• Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Talking, Editors

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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