Edmund White Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Ive 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.

  Edmund White

  Writing, Faithful, Way

• 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

  Writing, Games, Challenges

• Tennessee Williams recognized that great theater begins with great talkers, and that great talkers obey two rules: they never sound like anyone else and they never say anything directly.

  Edmund White

  Writing, Two, Say Anything

  Edmund White, David Bergman (1995). “The Burning Library: Essays”, Vintage

• In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts.

  Edmund White

  Writing, Forgotten, Draws

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

• If 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.

  Edmund White

  Writing, America, Desire

  The Review of Contemporary Fiction Intreview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1996.

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