In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real… — 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… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the "queers" of homosexuality.In fact, they… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, thequeers of homosexuality. In fact, they… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Many French people were difficult conversationalists. Asking them not only where they were originally from but what they did in life was… — 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
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected. — 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
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
I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
San Francisco is where gay fantasies come true, and the problem the city presents is whether, after all, we wanted these particular… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although… — 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
“For the real movements of a life are gradual, then sudden; they resist becoming anecdotes, they pulse like quasars from long-dead stars… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“The French have such an attractive civilization, dedicated to calm pleasures and general tolerance, and their taste in every domain is so… — 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
