Character Quote by Christopher Rice Download Open image “It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.” — Christopher Rice ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Gay Writing
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant. — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
A lot of times, gay characters are represented in unrealistic or stereotypical ways. — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
There are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People balk at the fact that I've played loads of gay characters. Maybe I have, but you know what? It doesn't matter. — Freddie Fox Copy Share Image
I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays. — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
A lot of character writing for gay people is talking about trauma. It's nice to - instead of playing trauma - get to play… — E. R. Fightmaster Copy Share Image
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… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“ 'I went to one acting coach when I first started who told me that acting is reacting to the stimuli we are presented… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
The good thing about New Orleans is that, overall, it's an accepting place. It's accepting of eccentricity, it's accepting of excess, it's accepting of… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
The sort of public sex aspects of gay male sexuality did not appeal to me. And it wasn't just a matter of being afraid… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
Fear cannot touch me… It can only taunt me, It cannot take me, Just tell me where to go… I can either follow, Or… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“She wore a black pantsuit with a white silk shirt that had an almost metallic sheen to it. He wondered whom she had already… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“People talked about therapy and change and the power of Christ, but maybe you just had to wake up one day and say you… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“You told me about what you called the light in the darkness. About how life was neither good nor bad, but a combination of… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
