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
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
That's not writing, that's typing
I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.
When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination.
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.