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
death moving dying
I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.
children fall character
I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head tends to be too big for the bodies and the hands and feet are a disaster and they keep falling into things, and the nakedness of their bad character...
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.
sorry taken self
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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.
birthday perfect progress
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
doe rebellious bureaucracy
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
writing alcohol bedtime
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
writing born company
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
novelists stories southerner
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
morning wake-up nightmare
Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.
kansas prejudice insult
He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.
book ignorance world
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
might whining doleful
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'