All Edmund White Quotes
- Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great. All
- Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail. All
- Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography. Adolescence
- I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots. Album
- What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired… Admired
- If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in… Admit
- As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might… Assure
- I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a… Book
- Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard Boy
- I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique Aesthetic
- I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography… Already Write
- Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating,… Adventure
- In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as… Adult
- The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the… Aids
- I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy amount become too… Activity
- I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing… America
- These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected. Felt
- The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books. Book
- When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from… Advance
- There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along, he'd be able… Able