Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.

You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?