Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure.
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
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.
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 …
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.
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 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.
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.
I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots. - Edmund White
I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.
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.
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