Belief Quote by Charles Dickens

“There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves and a skeleton of truth that we never did.”

— Charles Dickens

“We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us…

— Charles Dickens

We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us.…

— Charles Dickens

I had seen the gay social chronicle done abundantly and done very well. And I didn't want to do any more of that myself,…

— Christopher Rice

I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read…

— Edmund White

“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

I have seen a lot of gay-themed films that didn't really express how I see being gay at this moment in the world. There…

— Andrew Haigh

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and…

— Tony Kushner

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

Being gay facilitated my capacity for shame. As a child, I carried around this thing that gradually became this big dark secret. When I…

— Derren Brown

Maybe the most interesting thing gay writers can do is show the tension between the breadth of gay experiences and the unity of what…

— Vestal McIntyre

I couldn't imagine a book with many characters in it and one of them not being gay. It would have felt like a glaring…

— Ayana Mathis