Edmund White Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Edmund White quotes and sayings page 5 (novelist). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 108 we have.
                
                                            
                                        
                    “Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.”
                    
                 
                
                
                                            
                                        
                    “AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.”
                    
                 
                
                
                                            
                                        
                    “Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.”
                    
                 
                
                
                                            
                                        
                    “I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.”
                    
                 
                
                
                                            
                                        
                    “I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.”
                    
                 
                
                
                                            
                                        
                    “I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.”
                    
                 
                
                
                                            
                                        
                    “I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.”
                    
                 
                
                
                                            
                                        
                    “I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.”
                    
                 
                
                
                                            
                                        
                    “I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.”
                    
                 
                
                
                                            
                                        
                    “I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.”
                    
                 
                 
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