Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidalwas an American writerand a public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth3 October 1925
CityWest Point, NY
CountryUnited States of America
village idiot wells
If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.
book reading eye
People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.
atheist self catholic
To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is all.
book facts literature
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
birthday believe exercise
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
suicide writing notes
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
home invisible very-good
I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.
witty sex adults
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
giving president politics
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
other-cultures literature culture
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
sex age middle
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
sex people subjects
Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of most people's lives, it's a great subject.
men bird tree
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
hygiene literature world
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.