What About Breakfast at Tiffany’s?
…all literature is gossip…
It’s the birthday of Truman Capote, born in New Orleans (1924). He was the son of a salesman and a beauty queen. He moved to New York City with his mother, went to Trinity School, dropped out when he was 17, and began working for the New Yorker magazine. His first book came out in 1948, Other Voices, Other Rooms.
It was Truman Capote who said, “All literature is gossip.” He also said, “Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does or music. If you were born knowing them, fine. It not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.”
From the Writer’s Almanac by Garrison Keillor
Available by e-mail daily.
Start MSN Chat
