Truman Capote Quotes

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.

I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.

The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural aptitude. A clear head, a quick imagination, and a sensitive ear, will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts needless.

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they.

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.

The balls do not make a writer.

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

As I grew older I found that I really had a knack for rhyming and I pursued that. So by thirteen I got serious about using my writing and rhyming skills. I did it everywhere I could.

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.