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
When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas. , "Answered Prayers" (Unspoiled Monsters).
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.
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.
In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.
Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.