Top 47 Gay Writers Quotes
#1. Amply described blowjobs and anal scenes may stigmatise gay writers.
Michael Graves
#2. It took me a long time to realise how many of our classic books on animals were by gay writers who wrote of their relationships with animals in lieu of human loves of which they could not speak.
Helen Macdonald
#3. Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that gay writers will ever suit their readers, especially since that readership is splintered into ghettos within ghettos.
Edmund White
#4. Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.
Tony Kushner
#5. Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what they have in common.
Vestal McIntyre
#6. It does seem like between the groundbreaking writing of Edmund White's generation and the work of younger gay writers in their twenties and thirties there is a kind of gap.
Garth Greenwell
#7. I was influenced by big, strong voices - writers like Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles; gay writers like Ed White, Michael Cunningham, Allen Hollinghurst; and contemporary lesbian writers, like Dorothy Allison.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#8. Directly after Rock Hudson's death came the fears that gay writers and actors and directors would be denied jobs; who knew if they would live long enough to finish a feature film or television series? And would the unions force directors to give blood tests and ban actors who tested positive?
Michael Shnayerson
#10. I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come out as a gay man than it was to come out as a Mexican-American.
John Rechy
#11. Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in 'In Memory of WB Yeats': "You were silly like us.
Christopher Bram
#12. In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.
Christopher Bram
#13. What's interesting about the relationship between gay men and women is there can be a lot of affection, but there's a line that you don't cross.
Michael Carroll
#14. Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.
Christopher Bram
#15. Isherwood received bags of fan mail, far more than Tennessee Williams had for Memoirs. There was the sexual and jokey (a fifteen-year-old English schoolboy sent his photo and wrote on the back, "My tits are on fire").
Christopher Bram
#16. I have written this book quicker than any other," she notes in her diary, "[and] it is all a joke; & yet gay & quick reading I think; a writers holiday. I feel more and more sure that I will never write a novel again
Virginia Woolf
#17. The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date.
Sean Hayes
#18. Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.
William Butler Yeats
#19. Some of our finest writers, organizers, artists, and scholars in the 60s as well as today, have been lesbian and gay, and history will bear me out.
Audre Lorde
#20. Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don't understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so obvious now, so banal.
Christopher Bram
#22. Love is benign only when it gets what it wants. Otherwise love can be far more destructive than mindless sex.
Christopher Bram
#23. Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn't worry about AIDS since his sex life consisted chiefly of giving blowjobs to straight college boys.
Christopher Bram
#24. An obsessed reader figured that 'Armistead Maupin' was an anagram for 'is a man I dreamt up'.
Christopher Bram
#25. 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
#26. Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.
Roxane Gay
#27. I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and William Gay.
Donald Ray Pollock
#28. Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.
Christopher Bram
#30. But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.
Sean Hayes
#31. Vidal himself joked that at a certain age lawsuits took the place of sex.
Christopher Bram
#32. Cunningham himself said in an interview in Poz that he couldn't help noticing that as soon as he wrote a novel without a blowjob, they gave him the Pulitzer Prize.
Christopher Bram
#33. There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.
Christopher Bram
#34. Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.
Christopher Bram
#37. I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza.
Marcia Gay Harden
#38. I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.
Mark Haddon
#39. There are writers who can show you the excellence of their brains and writers who show you the depths of their souls: I don't know any writer who does both at the same time as brilliantly as Roxane Gay.
Elizabeth McCracken
#41. Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.
Christopher Bram
#42. Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not yet ready to come out.
Christopher Bram
#43. A work of art doesn't need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become involved in other people's lives.
Christopher Bram
#44. Didn't he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist?
Christopher Bram
#45. Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.
Christopher Bram
#47. A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having "such a representative life". And it's true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people.
Christopher Bram
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