I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
More Quotes from Edmund White:
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.Edmund White
The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
Edmund White
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
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
Edmund White
But if all these things were the bits of tinsel and straw I made my nest out of, the way I felt while I worked was strangely different.
Edmund White
I abandoned fiction for playwriting then for a number of years before taking it up again to write The Beautiful Room Is Empty in the mid-1960s.
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That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.
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But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.
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