Quote: Truman Capote

From the documentary short film "With Love From Truman"

"I always have this theory. That if you want to move someone else, as an artist. You want to. You yourself necessarily must have been deeply moved by what it is your writing but you must keep exploiting that emotion in yourself, over and over and over and over, until you become completely cold about it, or fairly cold. I mean so you no longer laugh say about whatever it is that made you laugh or you don't weep about whatever it is that made you weep, you see is it was an extraordinary specimen, but you know!, that it had that effect on you, personally,  so that that you know if you can reproduce it, you can make it have the same effect on someone else."

"With Love From Truman"