Author: David Leavitt

Quotes

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

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

- 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.

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

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.

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

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