It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.
Gore VidalSoutherners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.
Gore VidalThink of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
Gore VidalI started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.
Gore Vidal