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I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.

~Edgar Wright

Topics: Always Book Books Choice Comic Envious Films Find Free Free Time Frequently Game Games Got Just Keep Know Listen Music People Pick Play Playing Read Reading Terms Terrible Time Try Up Watch Who

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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.

~Edmund White

Topics: Been Books Class Epoch Every Group Had Immigrant New New York Saga Social Social Class Subject Thousands York

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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.

~Edmund White

Topics: Books Effects Embodies Her Him His Like Long Other Possibilities Seamless Seem She Spirit Theme Think Thoroughly Threads Unbroken Who Writer I Can

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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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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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When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

~Edmund White

Topics: Beautiful Because Binding Books Child Cover Edges Enough Gold Had Kid Like Liked Look Love Loved Make Marble Me Pretty Reason White You

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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.

~Edmund White

Topics: Amazon Best Books Chocolate Drops Find Grandfather Look Named People Since Sometimes South Southern Tradition Up Valentine White Iii

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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

~Edmund White

Topics: Books Could Esteem Even Feel Fiction Good Most My Own Only Own Thing Those Work Written I Feel

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Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Always Big Books Greatness Help Hidden Little Pettiness Reveal Small Trying Unknown

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When I left the Senate in 1979, there were several publishers who had approached me about writing an autobiography, and I knew that politicians write books for many reasons, but at that time, I just thought I wasn't ready and my story wasn't over, and I knew I had a new life ahead of me.

~Edward Brooke

Topics: About Autobiography Books Had Just Knew Left Life Many Me New New Life Over Politicians Publishers Ready Reasons Senate Several Story Thought Time Were Who Write Writing Ahead

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