Quote of the Day (and Perhaps Millenium)

From a June 2008 NY Times interview with well-known novelist, essayist, and "public intellectual" Gore Vidal, who is getting way up there in years and has gotten to the point where he pulls no punches. (Truth be told, he was never one to pull punches even in his heyday.)

NYT: Do you read a lot of contemporary fiction these days?
Vidal: Like everyone else, no, I don’t.

Ha! The writer's temperament is to 1) giggle at such a statement in a funny-cuz-it's-true sorta way and then 2) to keep right on writing anyway, just because.