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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).

~Edmund White

Topics: Come Cultural Friends Gay Generations Life Men Mix Must Parents Problem Rarely Seldom Since Strangers Transmission

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Sometimes Peggy herself would sell tickets to her museum, and if tourists asked her if Mrs. Guggenheim was still alive, she'd assure them she wasn't.

~Edmund White

Topics: Alive Asked Assure Her Herself Museum Peggy Sell She Sometimes Still Them Tickets Tourists Would Mrs

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Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

~Edmund White

Topics: Better Determined Get Gets Most Rather Tend Than Worse Writers

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I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.

~Edmund White

Topics: After Changed Could Deliberately Embraced First Gay Get Inherently Interesting Literary Make Matter New Novels Possible Stand Story Style Subject Subject Matter Tell Then Transparent Two Very Want Wanted Way Were Which Writing Written

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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

~Edmund White

Topics: Also Anne Captured Characters Death Deep English Even Evident Falling Fate Imagined May Meditation Novel Original Page Prose Quality Rounded Sound Superb Things Translation Turner Version Well

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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

~Edmund White

Topics: Allegory Approach Become Characters Fables Ideas Some Thinks Writers

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'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.

~Edmund White

Topics: About Amuse Dares Feminism Fun Make Manners Many Offend Politics Readers Shock Since Truth Undoubtedly Will

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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

~Edmund White

Topics: Body Community Fiction Gay Literature Other Perhaps Political Pressures Subject Within

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Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that gay writers will ever suit their readers, especially since that readership is splintered into ghettos within ghettos.

~Edmund White

Topics: Any Been Case Changes Correct Ever Few Gay History Imagine No Reason Notion Politically Politically Correct Rapidly Readers Readership Reason Since Suit Will Within Writers

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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.

~Edmund White

Topics: Boy Character Class Contract Gay Generation History Instance Like Make Me Men Moment More My Generation Novel Other Own Reader Representative Social Social Class Story Think Wanted You Youth I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 13th, 1940

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