- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
- Empty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
- Cute
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
- Horizon
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020