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
literature assuming reasonable
It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.
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.
other-cultures literature culture
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
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.
funny literature television
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
business teenager literature
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
finding-the-one car literature
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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.
literature genius warhol
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
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.
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.