Whereas Fiction Is A Continual Discovery Of What One Wants To Say, What One Feels, What One Means, And Is, In That Sense, A Performance Art, Biography Requires Different Skills - Research And Organization. - SearchQuotes

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Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

Edmund White

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