“I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were writ...” — Edmund White Quote

“I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.”

“Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.”

“When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.”

“The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.”

“I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.”

“If people felt that they were misled with 'It Comes at Night,' they should know that the marketing here is deliberately misleading you in an honest way, in that we're not hiding what isn't there: we're hiding what is there.”