Being gay Quote by Ayana Mathis

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.

— Christopher Rice

There are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are…

— Garth Greenwell

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received…

— Edmund White

I probably haven't had enough gay characters in my stuff. When you're writing something, you're thinking, 'Why couldn't this person be black, white, gay?'

— Martin McDonagh

When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult.

— Ryan Murphy

I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they…

— Joe R. Lansdale

A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.

— Edmund White

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

— Carol Anshaw

I don't think of gay writers. I mean if you were to say to me who are the straight writers, well, you wouldn't ask…

— Joe Mantello

“I set out to write a series of grand stories starring queer people. My vision has always been to let that "queerness" exist organically…

— Hazel Blackthorn

Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even people who…

— Michelle Tea

I think I just felt a sadness at some points in my career that what is available to a straight writer is not available…

— Kevin Sessums