Who Quotes by Edmund White

9 Who quotes by Edmund White

Edmund White’s eloquent musings on self, sexuality, and society are presented in nine concise lines. This modest collection offers a clear glimpse of his literary voice.

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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students…

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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate…

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My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people.…

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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people…

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When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French.…

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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're…

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I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find…

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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although…

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I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There…

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Just like Barack Obama, my views on gay marriage have evolved, and now I am a reluctant groom.

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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,…

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Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much…

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'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…

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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…

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First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the…

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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…

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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…

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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find…

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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…

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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…

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“In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And most of…

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When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her…

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While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on…

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