“ Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. David Leavitt
“ When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself. David Leavitt
“ I watched that film the other night and it embarrassed me. So dated, so coy, so evasively homosexual only a fellow homosexual might recognize the subtext. David Leavitt
“ Everyone had gone to school with someone’s brother or known each other up at Cambridge. These were serious young leftist intellectuals, many of them communists devoted to the idea of a classless socie… David Leavitt
“ Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They are the long haul. They are marriage. Stories, on the other hand, you ca… David Leavitt
“ 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 bee… David Leavitt
