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
kings boys artist
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
writing thinking just-do-it
In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
thinking america race
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
father class people
When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.
way add deals
I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.
art love-is creation
The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'
sorry taken self
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
law might physics
American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.
practice people literature
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
life friendship success
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
block ambition writing
That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want to do it. They have become writers out of reasons of ambition. It must be a great strain to them to make marks on a page when they really have nothing much to say, and don’t enjoy doing it. I’m not so sure what I have to say but I certainly enjoy making sentences.
writing two force
These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.
theatre needs reminders
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
superstitions public-opinion prejudice
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.