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 goes-on television
I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.
writing icy said
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).
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.
mean writing journey
Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.
new-york writing worst
The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.
lying writing people
If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.
writing thinking imagine
Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!
book writing age
I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.
baby writing mind
The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.
suicide writing notes
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
sex writing giving
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
drama writing genius
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
country father writing
A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.
writing brain
The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.