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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 → ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ctrl → In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's... → 0 In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or... → 0 In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the... → 0 In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage... → 0 It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to... → 0 Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true... → 0 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... → 0 My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with... → 0 My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making... → 0 Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those... → 0 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination.... → 0 Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight... → 0 Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the... → 0 ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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