Quotes by Vidal, Gore

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare >>

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one t >>

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. >>

Quotations about Fiction

Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlar >>

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremend >>

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not >>

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.

Vidal, Gore