Truman Capote Quotes


I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.


Citations

Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany's. Random House, 1958.

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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.