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Edmund White Quotes

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.

Edmund White

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 13, 1940

Topics

Art Research Organization Performance

Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.

Jennifer McMahon

Children Think Doors Meant To Be

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

John Dalberg-Acton

Justice Nothing Bear Secret Safe

The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.

Angela Lansbury

Face Important The Most Important

The Hendricks/Lawler fights, those were just epic. Both were non-stop. I couldn't stop watching, and it was hard to look away. I watch those as a fan, and to see two guys fighting like that for 25 minutes is crazy.

Stipe Miocic

Crazy Fighting Look Stop Watching

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

Toni Morrison

Work Anger Angry Go Things Get

I am an educator and neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and what happens when a young brain can't learn to read easily, as in the childhood learning challenge, developmental dyslexia.

Maryanne Wolf

Learning Challenge Childhood I Am

I've always been much more comfortable with drawing fantasy stuff.

Mike Mignola

Drawing Comfortable Fantasy More

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

Jason Patric

Hollywood Touch Mainstream Mostly

With me, everything's right on the table.

Dennis Rodman

Me Table Right Everything

You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.

Deryck Whibley

Work Chair You House Want Never

When I signed up for 'Dancing with the Stars,' I was nervous. If I threw everything off, there are 10-15 million people watching, and that would be a negative viewpoint of deaf people, and I didn't want that.

Nyle DiMarco

Stars People Negative Want Nervous

People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about one of the theories that we know pretty well. They always want to know things that we don't know.

Richard P. Feynman

People Chance Know Want Tell Asking