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Edmund White, an American novelist born on January 13, 1940, is known for his delicate prose and profound emotional descriptions. His works cover a wide range of themes, including homosexuality, history, and literature.

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Famous Edmund White Quotes

“I’ve always associated reading and writing with sex.”

Writing Reading Sex

Book:The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

Source: The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

“Writers say two things that strike me as nonsense. One is that you must follow an absolute schedule everyday. If you're not writing well, why continue it? I just don't think this grinding away is useful.”

Writing

Author:Edmund White

“I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.”

Writing

Book:Forgetting Elena

Source: Forgetting Elena

“Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.”

Way Writing My Own Faithful Telling The Truth Being Faithful

Author:Edmund White

“Tennessee Williams recognized that great theater begins with great talkers, and that great talkers obey two rules: they never sound like anyone else and they never say anything directly.”

Writing Two Sound Theater Say Anything Talkers Tennessee

Book:The Burning Library: Essays

Source: The Burning Library: Essays

“In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts.”

Writing Draws Forgotten

Book:A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic

Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic

“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 1979 in States of Desire.”

Ifs Writing Looks States Today America Desire Contemporary Tone

Author:Edmund White

“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 game, arbitrary as those rules might be”

Want Writing Might Games Challenges Novel Biographies Arbitrary

Author:Edmund White

About the Author

Born: January 13, 1940
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 77

Books & Sources

Our Young ManRelated source material

A Boy's Own Story: Picador ClassicRelated source material

States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay AmericaRelated source material

The Unpunished Vice: A Life of ReadingRelated source material

The Burning Library: EssaysRelated source material

A Boy's Own StoryRelated source material

Forgetting ElenaRelated source material

The Beautiful Room is EmptyRelated source material

The FlaneurRelated source material

The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of ParisRelated source material

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