Truman Capote Quotes


First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.


Citations

Capote, Truman. "A Christmas Memory." Mademoiselle, Dec. 1956.

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Truman Capote
Truman Capote
  • Born: September 30, 1924
  • Died: August 25, 1984
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Actor, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter

Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966), which he labeled a "nonfiction novel". His works have been adapted into more than 20 films and television dramas.