Edmund White's Profile
Brief about Edmund White: By info that we know Edmund White was born at 1940-01-13. And also Edmund White is American Novelist.
Some Edmund White's quotes. Goto "Edmund White's quotation" section for more.These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
Tags: Felt, Hurt, LifeAs 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.
Tags: Read, Together, YoungBiography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
Tags: Great, Judgment, ThemselvesI think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
Tags: Aesthetic, Sincerity, TechniqueThe first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
Tags: Beautiful, Empty, RoomI 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.
Tags: Challenge, Game, WriteI 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 seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
Tags: Book, Far, PerfectIf I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
Tags: America, Today, WriteIn the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Tags: Experience, Gay, TeacherRelated topics
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