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David Leavitt

American Novelist

Born: Jun 23, 1961

Away Childhood Experience World Writing You

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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. David Leavitt

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Childhood smells of perfume and brownies. David Leavitt

Perfume Smells Childhood

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

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The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. David Leavitt

Writing World Living Paper Pleasure Having Unreliable Adult Generating Bouncing Term Counts Make Contend Sheer Ball Boy His Very Models Artist Represents Stories Which Public Little Public Image Image Competitive Two

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