, novel
s, play
s, and nonfiction are recognized 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
." At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.
Capote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, a long absence from his mother and multiple migrations.
It seemed odd to Joel that nature did not reflect so solemn an event: flowers of cotton-boll clouds within a sky as scandalously blue as kitten-eyes were offensive to their sweet disrespect.
A resident of over a hundred years in so narrow a world deserved higher homage.
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
Never trust a nigger: their minds and hair are full of kinks in equal measure.
She beckoned to him, shining and silver, and he knew he must go: unafraid, not hesitating, he paused only at the garden's edge, as though he'd forgotten something, he stopped and looked back at the bloomless, descending blue, at the boy he had left behind.
But my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes