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
want seasons denied
What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.
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.
block ambition writing
That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want to do it. They have become writers out of reasons of ambition. It must be a great strain to them to make marks on a page when they really have nothing much to say, and don’t enjoy doing it. I’m not so sure what I have to say but I certainly enjoy making sentences.
grandparent phrenology belief
I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.
want making-money admirable
U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans.
witty sex powerful
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
morning writing yellow
I write in the morning at a table, longhand on yellow legal pads, just like Nixon, when I’m doing fiction.
war nouns advertising
"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.
kings boys artist
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
stars writing want
I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~
literature genius warhol
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
writing thinking just-do-it
In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
sex writing fiction
I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.
democracy politics scales
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.