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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

Truman Capote
Lying, Writing, Thinking
Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.28, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.

Truman Capote
Lying, Writing, Thinking

But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those supernatural castles visited by characters in legends: once away, you do not remember, all that is left is the ghostly echo of haunting wonder.

Truman Capote
Lying, Character, Echoes
Truman Capote (2013). “Portraits and Observations”, p.20, Modern Library

People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie.

Truman Capote
Sex, Lying, Mean
Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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