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David Leavitt Quotes
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Novelist Quotes
Category:
American Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 23, 1961
Nationality:
American
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Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
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.
David Leavitt

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


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