Creative Quotations from . . .
Truman Capote
(1924-1984) born on Sep 30
US "novelist, short-story writer". "He is best known for "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and his journalistic approach with "In Cold Blood.""
 
   
F
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go.

R
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.
A
"It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something."
N
"That isn't writing at all, it's typing."
K
Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""The Observer," 'Sayings of the Week', 26 Nov 1961."
R: "Conversations With Truman Capote, ch. 3, "Love, Sex, and Fear" (ed. by Lawrence Grobel, 1985)."
A: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N: "Referring to the Beat novelists; in "New Republic" (Washington, DC), 9 Feb. 1959."
K: "From "Rand Lindsly's HUGE Quotations File," an internet collection of quotations."



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