Creative Quotations from . . .
Gore Vidal
(1925-____) born on Oct 3
US "novelist, dramatist, critic". "He is known for his irreverent and intellectually adroit novels, e.g.,"Burr," 1973 and "Lincoln: A Novel," 1984."
 
   
F
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true."

R
"Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5. . . . I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them."
A
I like the way you always manage to state the obvious with a sense of real discovery.
N
Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.
K
"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you are a great writer, you must say that you are."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""French Letters: Theories of the New Novel," in "Encounter" (London), Dec 1967."
R: ""Times Herald," (Dallas) 18 Jun 1978."
A: "In "Quotable Business," ed. Louis E. Boone, 1992."
N: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
K: "Interview in "Writers at Work," Fifth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1981."



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