In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession. — 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
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
The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense,… — 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
I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each… — 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
