The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer… — David Leavitt Adult Copy Share Image
I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a… — David Leavitt Cat Copy Share Image
“Hope had stolen into his life just as he was growing comfortable with despair.” — David Leavitt Hope Copy Share Image
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing… — David Leavitt Away Copy Share Image
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to… — David Leavitt Certain Copy Share Image
Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced… — David Leavitt Combination Copy Share Image
“Cautiously his foot explored, wiggled as it could, and finally felt warm flesh under the pants leg.” — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised. — David Leavitt Common Copy Share Image
We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so… — David Leavitt Anticipate Copy Share Image
“Sex, my darling, is often the least important part of a passion. You'll learn that when you get older. - Maria Luisa… — David Leavitt Passion Copy Share Image
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself. — David Leavitt Ends Copy Share Image
You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of… — David Leavitt Built Copy Share Image
I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse. — David Leavitt Exaggeration Copy Share Image
“Spouse or collaborator, it comes to the same thing. And there is work to be done. Always, always work to be done."… — David Leavitt Marriage Copy Share Image
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to… — David Leavitt Bitter Copy Share Image
“Philip understood that there were people in the world like Eliot for whom love and sex came easy, without active solicitation, like… — David Leavitt Love Copy Share Image
“You could reach for him, and sometimes you would grab hold of him. But sometimes all you would grab hold of was… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of… — David Leavitt Analytics Copy Share Image
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They… — David Leavitt Abandon Copy Share Image
