Book Quote by Gore Vidal Download Open image “Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.” — Gore Vidal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Done Knows Ought Writing
Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it. — Alan Cheuse Copy Share Image
Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper,… — Ina Coolbrith Copy Share Image
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind. — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story. — Zoey Deutch Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
