Vidal could not not work hard {"I find that when I do not write, I do not think"}. He agreed to do a teleplay for NBC about Abraham Lincoln, which soon grew into the novel that would be his magnum opus and most successful book. Work was fueled by coffee {"This stuff has killed more writers than liquor"} and a desire to stave off the melancholy of middle age. So he kept busy {"The mind that doesn't nourish itself devours itself"}. By
( James Edmonds )
[ Gore Vidal: A Portrait of an ]
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