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Gore Vidal Quotes about Writing - Page 2

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I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

Book, Writing, Age

Source: www.esquire.com

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

Sex, Writing, Giving

Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew up in politics. This is why it seemed perfectly natural to take part in the battles of my time, and to participate in the writing of the history of my country.

Country, Father, Writing

I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.

Writing, People, Trying

"The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.

Lying, Writing, People

"Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.

Art, Writing, Literary Theory

Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.

Writing, Thinking, Class

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

Baby, Writing, Mind

The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of surprise. I never know what is coming next. The phrase that sounds in the head changes when it appears on the page. Then I start probing it with a pen, finding new meanings. Sometimes I burst out laughing at what is happening as I twist and turn sentences. Strange business, all in all. One never gets to the end of it. That’s why I go on, I suppose. To see what the next sentences I write will be.

Writing, Laughing, Interesting

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.

Drama, Writing, Genius

1956 In the New York Times,17 Jun.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

Writing, Two, Force

"Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

New York, Writing, Worst

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey.

Writing, Mean, Journey

"The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

Writing, Mean, Past

"Gore Vidal: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 1, 2012.

I spend most of my time in California. I feel I am fueled by rage and by the political climate there. I am angry most of the time when I am there, which might be unbearable for someone else, but for me it's fuel for my writing.

Writing, Political, Rage

Source: www.guernicamag.com

These little books I write, such as The End of Freedom, about the post-9/11 political climate in the United States, sell in the hundreds of thousands of copies. Whereas, I hear novels on marriage are not selling. This is perhaps not the judgment of God, but it is certainly that of history.

Book, Writing, Political

Source: www.guernicamag.com

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