Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they recognized in each other "an apartness," as Capote later expressed it; and both loved reading. When Lee's father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories together.
When you think about [Truman] Capote in the - was what he did exploitative of a person's life or exploitative of these murders? You look at our culture now, you look at celebrity and how it plays out in our culture now, and Capote was one of the great PR men of his time.
Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.
My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.
Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat.
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art.
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall.
I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the only place open all night. Truman Capote in the frozen foods. Andy Warhol over in vegetables.