30 September: Truman Capote Quotes

1924 Truman Capote, novelist who wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood was born on this date in 1924. 10 quotes from him:

1. The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

2. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.

3. There is only one unpardonable sin – deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

4. It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

5. You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

6. Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

7. The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

8. Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

9. Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

10. You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.

Character birthday

Albany Jakes, Leader of the Innovian Ban the Bomb Movement.

Secrets and Skies

Jack Ward, President of Innovia, owes his life twice over to the enigmatic superhero, dubbed Power Blaster by the press. No-one knows who Power Blaster is or where he comes from - and he wants it to stay that way.

Scientist Desi Troyes has developed a nuclear bomb to counter the ever present threat of an asteroid hitting the planet. When Ward signs the order giving the go ahead for a nuclear test on the remote Bird Island, he has no inkling of Troyes' real agenda, and that he has signed the death warrants of millions of people.

Although the island should have been evacuated, there are people still there: some from the distant continent of Classica; protesters opposed to the bomb test; and Innovians who will not, or cannot, use their communication devices.

Power Blaster knows he must stop the bomb from hitting the island. He also knows it may be the last thing he ever does.

Meanwhile in Innovia, Ward and his staff gather to watch the broadcast of the test. Nobody, not even Troyes himself, has any idea what is about to happen.

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