The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“At every moment I convinced myself that I was gathering material for the novel of my life - all experienced from the… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Early gay novels such as 'Giovanni's Room' and 'The City and the Pillar' were not nearly as important to me as Isherwood's… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
From my mother I learned just how violent and unquenchable a woman's loneliness can be. She had been sheltered excessively by her husband and… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
