Art Quote by Lance Morrow

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

— Fred Kaplan

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

— Fred Kaplan

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

— Cybill Shepherd

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

— Hilary Mantel

“A crock of shit,” Rick had called it. But actually this was worse. Shit, to quote Gore Vidal, has its own integrity. This was…

— Robert Harris

“There was a long silence. Al Gore was the first to speak, and he listed Jobs’s accomplishments”

— Walter Isaacson

Vidal was a novelist, an essayist, a playwright, a screenwriter, and many other things. Buckley started a magazine, hosted a TV show, lead a…

— Morgan Neville

They don't make people like Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley anymore.

— Morgan Neville

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

— John Cusack

Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in…

— Edmund White

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.

— Vincent Bugliosi

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

— W. Somerset Maugham