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
writing track done
I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.
book writing done
Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.
done return tourists
The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.
done united-states savages
I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.
government people done
Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.
american-novelist andy genius
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
betrays night wedding
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
next sam script worked
During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.
fourteen
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
debated democratic eager label ran run seriously suspicious whether
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
tim tiny
Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.
country
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
favorite follow sports
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
corporate dominate encouraged masters plans serving states truth united
We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.