Literary Landscape Quotes by Edmund White

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• Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
• Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if…
• Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography.
• I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.
• What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings…
• If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as…
• As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only…
• I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or…
• Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard
• I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique
• I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules…
• Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored…

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