Truman Capote
Truman Capote
Truman Garcia Capotewas an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany'sand the true crime novel In Cold Blood, which he labeled a "nonfiction novel". At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced of Capote novels, stories, and plays...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 September 1924
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.
He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.
A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.
That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material; it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.
I know the next best thing is often the very best.
If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.
Good writing is rewriting.
Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship’s more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments.
We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.
Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky
With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.
She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.