Edmund White Quotes

I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.

Edmund White

Quotes to Explore

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Good
- Smile
- Warm
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

Carlo Ponti
- Work
- Art
- Perfect
I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

Garrett Dillahunt
- World
- Job
- Perfect
Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

Karl Lagerfeld
- People
- Me
- Collection
I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.

W. H. Davies
- Long
- Society
- Water
At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

Rafael Moneo
- Time
- Art
- Logic