Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
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In 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.Edmund White
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
Edmund White
I guess I felt I was lucky because history just happened to hand me all these empty niches, and it did fuel me. It is always exciting when you tap into some new subject matter.
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There was a certain hum that would be generated by the book when I was writing well I'd stop working the instant that hum snapped off.
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I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having ''too much'' sex. At what point does a ''healthy'' amount become ''too much'' There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive in their case the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such. When ''morality'' is discussed I invariably discover, halfway into the conversation, that what is meant are not the great ethical questions but the rather dreary business of sexual habit, which to my mind is an aesthetic rather than an ethical issue.
Edmund White
I quickly discovered that I wrote best when I had an audience to read out loud to soon after the completion of my latest, hottest pages.
Edmund White
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