When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist. Edmund White collegesocialist Change image and share on social
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 confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together. Edmund White assureconfirmdesperately Change image and share on social
I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody. Edmund White americanenglandfeel Change image and share on social
I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to. Edmund White deathdiestoic Change image and share on social
I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published. Edmund White ambitiousmakemoney Change image and share on social
Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section. Edmund White absurdblackbookstore share on social
AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s. Edmund White 1970saidbrat Change image and share on social
In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory. Edmund White assignboyfriend Change image and share on social
My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there. Edmund White businessdayfather share on social
Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction). Edmund White autobiographicalcarefulchristopher share on social