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 couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.
The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.
Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.
I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it's always nice to know where you're going is my theory.
Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.
I live in Brooklyn. By choice,
Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.