Edmund White Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy amount become too much? There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive; in their case the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such. When morality is discussed I invariably discover, halfway into the conversation, that what is meant are not the great ethical questions but the rather dreary business of sexual habit, which to my mind is an aesthetic rather than an ethical issue.

  Edmund White

  Sex, Loneliness, Ethical Questions

  "States of Desire: Travels in Gay America". Book by Edmund White, 1980.

• Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.

  Edmund White

  Communication, Understanding, Desire

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.128, University of Wisconsin Pres

• If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

  Edmund White

  Writing, America, Desire

  The Review of Contemporary Fiction Intreview, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1996.

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