Another Quote by Jerry Kramer

I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage.

— Hilary Mantel

I used to read Gore Vidal books and think I was cool.

— Matt Smith

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

— Frederick Busch

Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.

— Cybill Shepherd

I got to know Gore Vidal quite well, up front and personal: his magnificent strengths and his appalling, almost other-worldly weaknesses.

— Fred Kaplan

I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.

— John Cusack

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

— Joseph Joubert

Books were in the world; the world was in books.

— Lewis Buzbee

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of…

— George Orwell

Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

— Alexander Smith

Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted.

— Fred Kaplan

“books, i think, are a different kind of time machine. instead of reminding you of a lost world, they create one for you. more…

— Neil Peart