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At the time not a soul in sleeping Holcomb heard them—four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives. But afterward the townspeople, theretofore sufficiently unfearful of each other to seldom trouble to lock their doors, found fantasy re-creating them over and again—those somber explosions that stimulated fires of mistrust in the glare o
... See moreTruman Capote • In Cold Blood (Vintage International)
Hitchcockian protagonist,
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
“Writers, at least those who take genuine risks, who are willing to bite the bullet and walk the plank, have a lot in common with another breed of lonely men— the guys who make a living shooting pool and dealing cards.”
― Truman Capote, A Capote Reader, p. 719
Preface to Music for Chameleons
In the courtyard there was an angel of black stone, and its angel head rose above giant elephant leaves; the stark glass angel eyes, bright as the bleached blue of sailor eyes, stared upward.
Truman Capote • Portraits and Observations (Modern Library)
“Gertrude moved her large face close to mine. ‘You know, Hemingway, you’re someone I created, a macho character who roams the earth looking for adventure. The truth is, under pressure you have proved to be quite yellow, which is really an embarrassment to me.’