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Edmund White Quotes

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Better Determined Get Worse Rather

There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.

Power Moving Face Someone Seeing

What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them.

Writing Chance Enjoy Talk Kinds

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

Best School College Win Winning Way

All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.

Life My Life Always Girlfriend Been

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

Work Writing Never Real Suspicion

I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have ever worked and I've worked in a lot of nice places.

Live Enough Place Nice Praise Ever

One time, I was literally stopped on the street, literally and physically whipped around by this guy who looked at my face and was like, 'Are you Felix?' I looked very different then. I was like, 'Yah... Oh, yah!' I was stunned and slightly frightened.

Time Face You Street Guy Different

Progressives should be willing to talk about ways to ensure the long-term viability of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, but those conversations should not be part of a plan to avert the fiscal cliff.

Plan Security Talk Cliff Long-Term

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

I Am Artist Say Classic They Say Am

I am extremely passionate about what I do, and the happiest I am is when I'm on set working.

I Am Passionate Working Happiest Set

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

Chris Van Hollen

Success Failure Management You Look

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

Limits Earth Whatever Forever May

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