Quotes by David Leavitt

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• Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

  The Stories of David Leavitt (2013) 4

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

  ― David Leavitt
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• When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.

  ― David Leavitt
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Subjects in these quotes:

• autobiographical
• writer-and
• contract
• possibly
• silences
• fiction

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