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Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Gore Vidal on Gore Vidal

Gore VidalGore Vidal is the author of 22 novels, five plays, numerous screenplays, hundreds of essays and thousands of great sentences. He’ll be here in November as part of the Unterberg Poetry Center Reading Series. We’ll find plenty of bloggable material about him and his work in the coming months, but here are some quotations for the moment:

“Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.”

“I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.”

“He will lie even when it is inconvenient: the sign of the true artist.”

“In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.”

“Never have children, only grandchildren.”

“Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.”

“In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.”

“Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.”

“There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.”

“Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.”

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”

Plenty more here.

[Gore Vidal: 11/09/06]


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