David Leavitt quotes

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies. (David Leavitt)
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing. View quote
David Leavitt
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised. View quote
David Leavitt
Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. View quote
David Leavitt
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can. View quote
David Leavitt
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. View quote
David Leavitt

David Leavitt

Occupation: American Novelist
Born: June 23, 1961
Quotes count: 6

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