Truman Capote Quotes

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.

I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.

I feel like there's an obligation - this sounds terribly pretentious - if you're an artist, to share your own experience in a way that's truthful and honest: 'This is what I have to share; this is my life.'

Look, anything any writer writes is going to be on some level autobiographical. Part of the funny/sad thing is that you don't always know how autobiographical you're being.

My movies are personal notes of my whole life.

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

Everyone's going to have their own experience and perspective on everything.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

I like to write about what I've seen and experiences I've been through.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.

Much of my work has been done in first person.

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning.

Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.

We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes both our insight and protection as a writers. This is our authority as women, as human beings.

I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.

I've got to show life as I see it.