George Plimpton Quotes (10 Quotes)

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill.

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

That is one of the problems with oral biography, in that many different points of view are offered contradictions, refutations, and so on.

Writing is a very lonely business and when you come to a book fair and you sit at a table and people come up to you with books that they've had in their library for many years and they think it's been somewhat enhanced by a signature, it's always a pleasure.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

I was told just today that 60,000 or 70,000 people listen to this (Audible.com site), which on personal computers strikes me as an extraordinary number, ... Maybe with this 'Pet Peeves' book, it'll be 150,000.

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.

I think people are aware of how varied and interesting his life was-always at the center of things-as well as aspects of his decline.