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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 108 quotes by Edmund White White in his home in New York, October 2007 Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is an American novelist, as well as a writer of memoirs and an essayist on literary and social topics. Much of his writing is on the theme of same-sex love. Probably his best-known books are The Joy of Gay Sex (1977) (written with Charles Silverstein) and his trio of autobiographic novels, A Boy's Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988)... Read full biography of Edmund White → 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ctrl → In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in... → 0 The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how... → 0 I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most... → 0 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... → 0 In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for... → 0 Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and... → 0 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... → 0 Early gay novels such as 'Giovanni's Room' and 'The City and the Pillar' were not nearly as important to me as Isherwood's... → 0 These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected. 0 The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors. 0 A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people. 0 I've 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. 0 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... → 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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