Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail.

- Edmund White

At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later.

- Edmund White

Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding …

- Edmund White

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

- Edmund White

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 o…

- Edmund White

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

- Edmund White

I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.

- Edmund White

Ive 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

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

- Edmund White