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 also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.
I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.
It isn't writing at all - it's typing
I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.
I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.
Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.
I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
it's a well-known photograph. This was 1984, just three months before he died.
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.
My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.
I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are. They're the most materialistic people in the world. What they're actually living for is material things. The irony of that is that in communist countries there isn't anything to buy.
the part that he has been waiting for. He's 38 years old. He's never led a movie successfully. When I say 'successfully,' I mean like to the point where it took root in the culture and became a fixture in the culture ... For all of the respect that he gets, it hasn't happened. And this is a role that required everything he absolutely had. This thing took a lot out of him.