Lawrence Sanders Quotes

They don't make people like Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley anymore.

I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.

I used to read Gore Vidal books and think I was cool.

At my very core, I'm pretty shy. I just happen to have a weird job.

My experience of being on the public platform got more multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, and my place in the public eye, I think, has always been a little more than just what is going on in that time in my life.

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

I still have shy qualities but nobody would believe that, just because we're in the forefront and I can talk a lot of mess and I can run my mouth.

I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.

I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.

I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some sort of critical dialogue.

People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.

I'm not a pundit. I don't want to be a pundit.

One of the things is, I don't read my own press. I never watch myself.

Suddenly, I'm like this political Ann Landers, which is a role I'd never envisioned for myself.

Christopher Hitchens's autobiography, 'Hitch 22', is a poignant read and very interesting because I have a very poor knowledge of recent political history - or, for that matter, distant political history.

I don't take my image seriously. I make fun of the fact that some people think I'm a romantic figure.

While I understand the Howard Stern comparisons to help contextualize my craft for other people, and while I relate to the moral stance he took against a bigger corporate machine, that's probably where our similarities stop.

I'm not the sort of person who reads much about himself.

I was asked before to go out on '8 out of 10 Cats,' and I've been asked to go on 'Question Time,' I said to no to that. I don't see myself coming across well on that sort of thing.

If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

I'm not a performer. If they're looking for entertainer-in-chief, I'm probably not the guy.

My whole life, people have been saying, "Why are you so angry?" and I didn't know what the hell they were talking about. After I saw myself at the MTV Awards, I realized, Wow, I do kind of come off a bit intense. I wasn't upset at MTV at all - I didn't mean to come off that way. But I think it's good if I appeared a bit angry. People are too complacent.

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.