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Your Quotes for 30 September 2005 - Truman Capote

Truman Streckfus Persons was born at New Orleans, Louisiana on this day in 1924, although before he started writing he was adopted by his stepfather and renamed Truman Garcia Capote. As a boy he became friends with novelist Harper Lee, Capote was the model of the character Dill in her To Kill a Mockingbird, and is believed to actually have written a fair part of the book. He wrote his first story at age eight and continued to write short stories, novels, plays and his "nonfiction novel" In Cold Blood in 1966. Here, then, some of his quotes, mostly related to writing.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the yard and shot it.

Life is moderately good play with a badly written third act.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
     - All from Truman Capote, 1924 - 1984

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