Truman Capote citáty
Truman Capote
Datum narození: 30. září 1924
Datum úmrtí: 25. srpen 1984
Truman Capote byl americký spisovatel, herec a novinář. Po rozvodu rodičů o něj od jeho čtyř let pečovali příbuzní, což také velmi ovlivnilo jeho tvorbu. Již během školní docházky vytvořil první literární dílka, v deseti letech se zúčastnil literární soutěže. Přesto jeho cesta k tomu, aby byl profesionálním spisovatelem, vedla přes práci tanečníka, pomocné síly v redakci časopisu, herce, atd.
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„Disco is the best floor show in town. It's very democratic, boys with boys, girls with girls, girls with boys, blacks and whites, capitalists and Marxists, Chinese and everything else, all in one big mix.“
— Truman Capote
Quoted in The London Review of Books http://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n01/hasl02_.html (6 January 2000)
„It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.“
— Truman Capote
Reported in Steven D. Price, 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About California (2007), p. viii.
„[You've said your material chooses you. ] That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman—-the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material; it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.“
— Truman Capote
From a 1968 interview
„People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You know? You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie. But in a friendship you don't do that. You do exactly the reverse. You try more and more to be as completely pure and straight as you can be.“
— Truman Capote
From a 1970 interview
„Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has divined the natural shape of his story is just this: after reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.“
— Truman Capote
From a 1957 interview
