- Gore Vidal: "Years ago Mailer solemnly assured me that to be a “great” writer in America you had to be fairly regularly on the cover of the Sunday New York Times book section...Anyway, he is now what he wanted to be: the patron saint of bad journalism." http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3917/the-art-of-fiction-no-50-gore-vidal 11 comments books
- “One of the reasons that the gifted Hemingway never wrote a good novel was that nothing interested him except a few sensuous experiences, like killing things and fucking . . . ” -Gore Vidal on The Art of Fiction, Paris Review, 1974. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3917/the-art-of-fiction-no-50-gore-vidal 16 comments books
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