American - Novelist | October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
Gore Vidal
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external.
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Friends, there is no Left in American politics.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally.
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Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?'
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