Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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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
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
Edmund White
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
Edmund White
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
With my gaudy, exotic material I wanted to create large, dreamy constructions that would not be decorative but powerfully expressive.
Edmund White
I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood.
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