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I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.

~Edmund White

Topics: Always Black Color Could Find Go Her Me Novels Old Pretended She Successful Then Think Thought Too Touring Used Wanted Who Willing Woman Would Write Wrong Young

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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.

~Edmund White

Topics: Always Been Detail Examined Felt Gay Great Had Handed Impelled Life Me Never Novel Read Record Say Scarcely Strange Subject Though Truth Wrote

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I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

~Edmund White

Topics: About Always Experience Faithful Me My Own Own Seen Telling Telling The Truth Tried Truth Way Writing

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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.

~Edmund White

Topics: Authors Celebrities Comment Different Everything France Public Role Shows States Talk Talk Shows Very Want Writers

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It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.

~Edmund White

Topics: Accent Conservatism Equal Experimentation Foreigners Know Made Mark Moral Never Paris Parts Place Quite Social True Up Where

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I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

~Edmund White

Topics: Against Almost Deadlines Focused Hate Never Teaching Write Writing I Write

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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.

~Edmund White

Topics: Against Because Being Bohemian Fight Fighting Gay Gay Marriage Gays How Knew Marriage Much Never Old-Fashioned Opposed Originally People Possibility Religious Religious Right Right Saw Sixties Straight Thought Too Very Were Worth

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The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book.

~Edmund White

Topics: Book Ever Imagine Immense Impact Internet Paying Students

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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.

~Edmund White

Topics: About America Appreciate Become Courses End Even Good Great Industry Learning People Readers Students Taking Teach Them Those Up Want Who Whole Write Writing

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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

~Edmund White

Topics: Assign Boy Different Friend Him His Holmes Idea Jack Life My Own Own Real Same Same Time Self Someone Story Take Time Totally Trajectory

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 13th, 1940

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