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As 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.

~Edmund White

Topics: Assure Confirm Desperately Excuse Identity Looked Me Might Only Read Teenager Things Together Young

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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

~Edmund White

Topics: Biography Forms Great Judgment Little Little People Middle-Class Most People Themselves

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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

Topics: Arbitrary Biography Challenge Did Game Might Nor Novels Rules Since Those Want Write

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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

~Edmund White

Topics: Aesthetic Experimental Realism Sincerity Sole Technique Think I Think

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I 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.

~Edmund White

Topics: Book Crying Ecological Empty Even Far Filled Fills Fit Landscape Less Literary More More Or Less Niche Perfect Seized Think I Think

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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

Topics: Admit America Contemporary Defensive Desire Did Less Look States Take Today Tone Very Write

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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

Topics: Adult Betrays Book Boy Case Creepy Enjoyed Etc Even Everyone Experience Gay He His Man Needed Novel Only Really Received Sexual Teacher Think Though Too Whom

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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

~Edmund White

Topics: Boy Course Guard Me Off Own Story Success Took Utterly

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The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.

~Edmund White

Topics: Beautiful Editors Empty Ever First New New York Room Submitted Version York

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These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

~Edmund White

Topics: Because Being Felt Hurt Life Me My Life Rejected Rejections Terribly

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 13th, 1940

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