black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Gore Vidal

Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
GORE VIDAL

Age Beginning Myself
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
GORE VIDAL

Dream Myself Writing
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
GORE VIDAL

Death Friendship Myself Success
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
GORE VIDAL

Missing Myself World
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
GORE VIDAL

Children Country Famous Past Time
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
GORE VIDAL

Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
I hate nobody.
GORE VIDAL

Hate Myself One Liner
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.
GORE VIDAL

Build Meaning Novel Sex
Love is not my bag.
GORE VIDAL

Love One Liner
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
GORE VIDAL

Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
The unfed mind devours itself.
GORE VIDAL

Devour Mindset
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
GORE VIDAL

Election Force Yourself
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
GORE VIDAL

Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
GORE VIDAL

Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
GORE VIDAL

Death Forever Human Race
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
GORE VIDAL

Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Gore Vidal Quotes