Any Quote by Edmund White

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

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

— Carol Anshaw

Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.

— Edmund White

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

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

There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to…

— Edmund White

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

It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than…

— Cheryl Strayed

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

— Christopher Rice

Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models.…

— Edmund White

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 am a gay writer, absolutely. And in no way does that fact limit the reach or importance of what I write.

— Garth Greenwell