Zitate und Sprüche von Edmund White

Edmund Valentine White III ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Essayist. Er ist seit 1998 Professor für kreatives Schreiben an der Princeton University und gilt als einer der wichtigsten zeitgenössischen homosexuellen Autoren.

Die schönsten Zitate und Sprüche

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

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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

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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.

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

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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 on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.

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