Edmund White Subject Quotations

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.

I guess I felt I was lucky because history just happened to hand me all these empty niches, and it did fuel me. It is always exciting when you tap into some new subject matter.

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.