David Leavitt Quotes

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• Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long…
• I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a happiness filled me…
• When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
• We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have…
• Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a…
• It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
• Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
• In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and…
• Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close…
• I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.
• It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots…

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