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
children humorous kids
Never have children, only grandchildren.
distance writing europe
I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.
men presidential political
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
life running native-american
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
past gossip might
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
purpose hawthorne united-states
The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."
adjectives nouns today
To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.
coffee firsts bowel-movements
First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.
writing cities perfect
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.
army thinking president
I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.
views impossible life-is
Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.
men looks found
I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.
I liked the trichotomy, that's the only thing I ever liked.
united-states literature empires
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.