While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal. Edmund White acceptanceboycase share on social
Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather. Edmund White amazonbookchocolate Change image and share on social
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people. Edmund White gaynovelistpeople Change image and share on social
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique. Edmund White aestheticexperimentalrealism Change image and share on social
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office. Edmund White americanbearblack share on social
I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that. Edmund White deadlinefocushate Change image and share on social
The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian. Edmund White absolutedriverenmity Change image and share on social
If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world. Edmund White bohemiaburnbusiness share on social
Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published. Edmund White criteriondecidediscourage share on social
'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics. Edmund White amusedarefeminism Change image and share on social