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
The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady.
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.
It’s better to look at the sky than live there
Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.
That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
That's not writing, that's typing
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.