All Gore Vidal Quotes
- The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. Behaviour
- What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke? Culture
- Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age. Age
- To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. Bearded
- Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. Active
- Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. Alcohol
- Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. Barrel
- That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. Bad
- That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. American
- There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. Bureaucracy
- Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. Business
- 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… Age
- I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out. Anything Life
- Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little. Die
- Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Born
- The unfed mind devours itself. Devours
- Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family. Family
- To a born-again atheist like myself, it is clear that each of us has multiple selves, talents, perceptions. But to the Roman Catholic, unity is… All
- Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be at war Congress has to vote for it. He… Bush
- It is not enough merely to win; others must lose. Enough Merely
- How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself. Book
- Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors. Divine
- The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl… Aside
- 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… Account
- I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place Bad