David Leavitt Quotes

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
David Leavitt

Childhood, Perfume, Smells

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.
David Leavitt

Writing, Wanted, Point

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.
David Leavitt

Truth, Experience, True

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
David Leavitt

Experience, Write, Common

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
David Leavitt

Before, Perfect, Put

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.
David Leavitt

Good, End, Together

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.
David Leavitt

Writing, Two, Living

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Nationality: American

Born: June 23, 1961

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