Gore Vidal Quotes

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

I've heard writers talk about "discovering a voice," but for me that wasn't a problem. There were so many voices that I didn't know where to start.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.

I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

Creativity was definitely a big part of our household, and I remember always writing stories and being encouraged to be creative.

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

I like to make something different and interesting.

It's easy to just write about love, because everyone can relate, but I like variety.

Creative instinct is personal.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Every fashion photographer is completely different; the fact that they are so different is what makes it fun. You don't want to get bored.