Gay Authors Quotes

#1. Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South.

Janisse Ray

#2. That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand.

Christopher Isherwood

#3. Faith never goes contrary to reason
faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#4. Gay life is this object out there that's waiting to be written about. A lot of people think we've exhausted all the themes of gay fiction, but we've just barely touched on them.

Edmund White

#5. I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.

Lynn Redgrave

#6. John Gielgud told us this story about Mae West. She was asked, 'Do you ever smoke after you've had sex?' She answered, 'I never looked.

Christopher Isherwood

#7. Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.

John Piper

#8. Dogwood Blues by Brenda Sutton Rose is a masterful work of classic small-town fiction.

Janice Daugharty

#9. The official declaration of war came on October 19, 1739, with the ringing of bells and the Prince of Wales toasting the London populace outside the Rose Tavern near Temple Bar. "This is your war," Walpole told his rival the Duke of Newcastle, "and I wish you joy of it.

Arthur Herman

#10. There was also a daughter, very short, very plump, very gay, an amazing production for the Gregorievitches. It was as if two very serious authors had set out to collaborate and then had published a limerick.

Rebecca West

#11. If you're reading this and you think that maybe you could love someone of the same gender (or nongender), all I have to say to you is this: Congratulations! You're perfect and wonderful and more alive than you ever knew. Be proud of who you are because you're already more than enough.

Hannah Hart

#12. It was October in Pennsylvania and on the first morning the ground was frosted. As I walked to breakfast, some guy yelled out, 'Thirteen inches in the Poconos.'
'Is that I porn film?' I asked.

George Hodgman

#13. Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He is always the same He doesn't always look the same ...

Emily Carr

#14. Sinking into fiction: the if-only of if-onlys.

David Arnold

#15. The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. There are no thought processes before my morning coffee!

William Davrick

#17. Who... who are you?"
"I am what you will soon be. I am a survivor.

Brandon Sanderson