I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Where the novel makes use of material from my life it does so because it's aesthetically convenient, not because of any allegiance… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
There are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Writing the novel felt so private to me! I think publishing a novel is quite public and exposing, and what's a little… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I hope that the relationship of the title to the novel [ What Belongs To You] gets more complex with each section… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
If my novel gets any attention in Bulgaria, it will be as a scandal: a book about a teacher at a famous… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little)… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I can articulate any principles behind the decisions about what to cut and what to keep. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“[L]ike poems, cruising carves privacy out of public spaces. Poems are a kind of private communication that occurs in public speech. And I think… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
The academy is an incredibly sheltered world, and I do think it's important for writers to get out from under that shelter, at least… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness -… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm qualified to answer questions about happiness. But I guess I'd say that I don't think you ever get to put… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
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… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I realized, that the life of a musician, even of a very lucky, very successful musician, wasn't really the life I wanted: I hate… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
![“I hope that the relationship of the title to the novel [ What Belongs To You] gets more complex with each section of the book: that maybe it begins by resonating with the question of prostitution - to what extent can a body be commodified, what exactly are you renting or purchasing when you pay…” quote by Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b4b/garth-greenwell-14165_addresses_i-hope-that-the-relationship-of-the-titl_1775897.jpg)
![“[L]ike poems, cruising carves privacy out of public spaces. Poems are a kind of private communication that occurs in public speech. And I think cruising is that too: a training in reading occult codes; a way of seeing a significance in the world that most people don’t see.” quote by Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/431/garth-greenwell-14165_codes_l-ike-poems-cruising-carves-privacy-out_265401.jpg)
