Gore Vidal Books - Reading quotes

" Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. " # Books - Reading

" A good deed never goes unpunished. " # Books - Reading

" I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis. " # Books - Reading # Problems # Crisis

" Half the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for President — the same half? " # Books - Reading # Voting # President

" Anais Nin gave me my most original, or so I thought, creation. As I read Incest, I realized that something which I had always taken to be unique, the voice of Myra Breckinridge, was actually that of Anaïs in all the flowing megalomania of the diaries. Of course, I had not read the diaries then, but even so, if only for that one thundering voice, I am forever in her debt. " # Books - Reading # Debt # Originality

" We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes. " # Books - Reading # Police # Crime and Criminals

" People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified — which is sometimes useful. " # Books - Reading

" Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them, either. " # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing # Politicians and Politics