That's no lie

September 29 -- Miguel de Cervantes was born in 1547. He wrote:

"Everyone is as God made him, and often a good deal worse."



September 30 -- Truman Capote (pictured) born in 1924.

"Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art." -- Gore Vidal.

He's too modest -- Answered Prayers was #1

American author William Golding (Lord of the Flies)was born on this day in 1911.

"Lord of the Flies was one of the great rip-offs of our time." -- Truman Capote.

Maybe his comment is just a monstrous joke

Birthday of novelist Joyce Carol Oates, born June 16, 1937.

"She's a joke monster." -- Truman Capote.

Capote really doesn't exist

Birthday of novelist and Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow, born 1915.

"Saul Bellow is a nothing writer. He doesn't exist." -- Truman Capote.





Also born on this day: Playwright Ben Jonson, born 1572. He was a contemporary of Shakespeare (and the actual author of some of his plays, some people believe. Jonson wrote:

“Fortune, that favors fools.”

Rabbit, retch

This is the birthday of author John Updike, born in 1932.

"I hate him (Updike). Everything about him bores me." -- Truman Capote.

Beat from all that typing

American beat writer Jack Kerouac was born on this day in 1922.

"That's not writing, that's typing." -- Truman Capote, on Kerouac's famous novel, On The Road.