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*A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. Music for Chameleons

*Adorned with cape, with tricorn, saintly soul singing in librarian tones an enameled song that coolly celebrates her chewing-gum enthusiasms.

*My book isn't gossip except in the sense that all literature is gossip. In response to question about "Answered Prayers"

*Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably. In Cold Blood

*Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. The Dogs Bark: Public People and Private Places

*Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

*Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

*Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. Conversations with Capote

*Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there." In Cold Blood

*I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

*I can see every monster as they come in.

*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.

*I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

*Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

*Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

*Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

*Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; they're enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.

*She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a flamingo.

*That's not writing, that's typing. remark in a television discussion

*The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

*To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. Breakfast at Tiffany's

*Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

*When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

*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.

*It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.