George Plimpton Quotes


"The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept."
- George Plimpton
(Related: Guest)

"He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill."
- George Plimpton
"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."
- George Plimpton
(Related: Being, Style, Uniqueness)

"It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury."
- George Plimpton
(Related: Biography, Jury)