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
you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.
I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.
A boy has to peddle his book.
The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. "Darling," she instructed me, "would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
Traveling wears me out.
I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.
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.
In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.
I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.
I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.