Drink Quote by Gore Vidal Download Open image “Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.” — Gore Vidal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drink Writing
I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Writers choose to drink because of their inability to cope with the daily hassles of being part of a society. Why shouldn’t they? Every… — Thor Benson Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing. — Liz Brixius Copy Share Image
Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. — Jim Bishop 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
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
I've never even been into those supplements or any of that. I don't even drink energy shakes. I'm not into that kind of stuff.… — Paul Pierce Copy Share Image
I get pretty focused when I start working on something. And I drink a lot of water, way more than most people. — Nick Woodman Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
