I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.
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
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
The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books. - Edmund White
The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.
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
Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding …
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique. - Edmund White
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later. - Edmund White
At certain crucial moments - an emergency or an opportunity - one must act first and think later.
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 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…
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
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.
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great. - Edmund White
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
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