Top 106 Quotes by Edmund White

About Edmund White

These are some quotes by American author Edmund White Novelist, who was born on January 13, 1940.

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours.

Edmund White

In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'

In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'

Edmund White

The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book.

The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book.

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.

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.

Edmund White

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

Edmund White

The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

Edmund White

There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.

Edmund White

'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

Edmund White

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

Edmund White

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

Edmund White

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