David Leavitt Quotes

We're an additional $50,000 over budget even before we start. - David Leavitt

The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. - David Leavitt

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

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. - David Leavitt

I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse. - 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. - David Leavitt

For one reason or another, this program has never had a national publication. - David Leavitt

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