Inspirational Quote by Gore Vidal Download Open image “The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.” — Gore Vidal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Life Oysters Real Sponges Writing
“He tries to go to life. So does every author except the very worst, but after all most of them live on predigested food.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see; he… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at… — Raymond Chandler 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
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
