David Leavitt
David Leavitt
David Leavittis an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 June 1961
CountryUnited States of America
additional budget
We're an additional $50,000 over budget even before we start,
thinking looks exaggeration
I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.
people together fiction
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.
writing fiction common
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
writing return exhausted
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.
drinking cat perfect
I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a happiness filled me that was pure and perfect and yet it was bled with despair - as if I had been handed a cup of ambrosial nectar to drink from and knew that once I finished drinking, the cup would be withdrawn forever, and nothing to come would ever taste as good.
heart science heaven
You are not supposed to get it. It's a paradox. All of mathematics is built on paradoxes. That's the biggest paradox of all-all this orderliness, and at the heart, impossibility. Contradiction. Heaven built on the foundations of hell.