Edmund White Quotes

Florida is a great place to set a novel.

Florida, bro. It's different.

What I like about South Florida is there's a good quality of life here; the cost of living is much lower than Silicon Valley.

My backyard was replete with madness, it just grew indigenously in South Florida.

I love Hawaii. I really enjoy surfing in Oahu, and Waianae is such a great area. And Maui - I like Maui a lot, too.

That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique.

I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are great, there's a lot of history and culture, and I like the serenity of Buddhism there. It's very beautiful. I find that to be a very nice place to visit.

I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.

Belize suits me because I'm active and I like diving. I learnt when I was 18, in Thailand, and I have dived in Vietnam, which wasn't great, the Red Sea, which was incredible and reasonably priced, and then the Maldives, which is like being submerged in an aquarium.

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.

We are not exposed to ice much in Florida.

Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.

Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is a rhythm.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.

I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.

I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.

If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is shallow until you've waded far out, and all the way the sea floor is covered with yucky algae and sea grass.

I've completely embraced life in Florida after growing up in the Midwest. This is home for me.

Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here.