Truman Capote

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I couldn't sit there to write. It was as though there were a box of chocolates in the next room, and I couldn't resist them. The chocolates were that I wanted to write fact instead of fiction. ---Truman Capote---

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/ At the end the personality of a writer has so much to do with the work. The personality has to be humanly there....The writer's individual humanity, his word or gesture toward the world, has to appear almost like a character that makes contact with the reader. ---Truman Capote--- (1957 interview)

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/ I was particularly amused to note that he [LeRoi Jones] was recently awarded a Guggenheim fellowship; well, a Guggenheim is something an artist applies for...and if LeRoi Jones so violently hates the white race and all its works, why is he down on his knees pleading for several thousand of Guggenheim's...dollars? You can't raise riots at the front door and then run around to the back door with an alms cup. He's just another hypocrite. ---Truman Capote--- (1968 interview)

a quote from truman capote about playing for cuba in the 1970's,

So when I was asked to sign this Fair Play for Cuba advertisement, I agreed...They swore they were just a legitimate organization with no ties to Havana, so I lent them my name. But some time afterward, I discovered that the advertisement had been paid for by the Cuban government...Naturally, I felt that the officers of the committee had been deceitful and unscrupulous, and I regret ever getting involved with them. ---Truman Capote--- (1968 interview)

Of course, there are occasionally bad situations where the police use third-degree tactics, but I think that is being corrected by the police forces themselves, which are growing more enlightened every day....The Supreme Court has handcuffed the police and thus bears a share of responsibility for the vast increase of crime in our society. ---Truman Capote--- (1968 interview)

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

The main thing is the character's [Truman Capote's] interior and without getting too deep into it, there are lots of parallels in Phil's [Philip Seymour Hoffman's] life, which I knew and only became more evident with time. There was something about that character that he could own that nobody else could. ---Bennett Miller---

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At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it....it will haunt you till it's written. ---Truman Capote---