"I think that there are empty ecological niches……" — Edmund White
"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 niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit"
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59 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.
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Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the…
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Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for…
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I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.
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What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and…
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at…
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't…
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard
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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge…
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Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is…
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even…
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