Edmund White Quotes about Writing

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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.

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

Writing, Faithful, Way

Tennessee Williams recognized that great theater begins with great talkers, and that great talkers obey two rules: they never sound like anyone else and they never say anything directly.

Edmund White

Writing, Two, Say Anything

Edmund White, David Bergman (1995). “The Burning Library: Essays”, Vintage

In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts.

Edmund White

Writing, Forgotten, Draws

Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

Edmund White

Writing, America, Desire

The Review of Contemporary Fiction Intreview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1996.

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be

Edmund White

Writing, Games, Challenges

Edmund White Quotes about Writing

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