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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

Topics: Art Biography Different Discovery Feels Fiction Means Organization Performance Performance Art Requires Research Say Sense Skills Wants Whereas

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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

~Edmund White

Topics: American French Good Refined Too Writer

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When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

~Edmund White

Topics: Aids Always Cute Dying Fix He Hotel Lover Me Trying Up Were

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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

~Edmund White

Topics: Anything Dreadful Five Get Novels Out Plays Point Published Seven Should Six Until Were Written

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I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'

~Edmund White

Topics: After Became Books Editor Eventually Horizon Journalist Review Saturday Staff Working Writer

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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.

~Edmund White

Topics: Alone Always Became Criterion Decided Discouraged First Forgetting Got Market Me Much New New Yorker Novel Part Please Problem Published Sole Something Too Too Much Would Write Writer Wrote Yorker Young

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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

~Edmund White

Topics: Always Better Hack Much Real Seemed Successful Than Writer

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I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

~Edmund White

Topics: Always Gays Had Mission Never Some Special Thought

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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

~Edmund White

Topics: Angry Books Boy City Few France French Friends Good Good Friends Got High Mentioned Mine Mocking New New York Once Pretty Relatives Review Ring Times Up Very Would Writer Wrote York

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From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent.

~Edmund White

Topics: About Age Back Book Early Early Age Everybody Goes Had Holy Idea Literature Maybe Me Nothing Origins Record Sacred See Serious Should Totally Transparent Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 13th, 1940

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